Fossil/solar energy hybridization system

Global carbon-recycling energy delivery system for CO mitigation (III) Fossil/solar energy hybridization system for utilization of carbon as solar energy carrier... 

In this paper, we have studied the solar methanol production by a solar-assisted coal gasification system, which will be able to start-up GCRED-system, from a point of fossil/solar energy hybridization using solar thermochemical process (STC). 

Figure 1. GCRED-system with the STC process for fossil and solar energy hybridization...

In order to avoid a social shock when the global energy system should transfer from fossil system to the CO2 recycling system using renewable energy, a hybridization between fossil and solar energy should be also discussed. That is, there are various kind of energy sources (solar, fossil fuels and their complex sources), and of carbon sources (CO2 from flue gas of combustion, CO2 from exhaust gas of fossil fuel chemical conversion, and carbon of fossil fuel itself). 

Fossil and solar hybridization system would be expected as a suitable candidate of softlanding path from fossil system onto sustainable energy system in future. 

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