Solar Spectrum and STH Efficiency

FIGURE 11.2 Proposed baggie system for a photocatalytic water-splitting plant with a bed area of approximately 70,000m that generates 1 ton of per day (assuming a conversion efficiency of 10%). Reprinted with permission from Ref. [12], John Wiley Sons. (See 

Based on the two-electron reaction in Equation 11.1, the Gibbs free energy of the reaction is 237.2 kJ moT . The photon energy, E, is expressed by 

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