Mustafa Tolga BaltaI. DincerA. HepbasliHepbasli, ArifBalta, M. TolgaDincer, Ibrahim2025-10-0620140080311393036031990360-31991879-348710.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.06.1332-s2.0-84913613419https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84913613419&doi=10.1016%2Fj.ijhydene.2014.06.133&partnerID=40&md5=fd97200a3655ab77fe285534e1980e39https://gcris.yasar.edu.tr/handle/123456789/9971https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2014.06.133The present study develops a new solar energy system integrated with a Mg-Cl thermochemical cycle for hydrogen production and analyzes it both energetically and exergetically for efficiency assessment. The solar based integrated Mg-Cl cycle system considered here consists of five subsystems such as: (i) heliostat field subsystem (ii) central receiver subsystem (iii) steam generation subsystem (iv) conventional power cycle subsystem and (v) Mg-Cl subsystem. Also the inlet and outlet energy and exergy rates of all of subsystems are calculated and illustrated accordingly. We also undertake a parametric study to investigate how the overall system performance is affected by the reference environment temperature and operating conditions. As a result the overall energy and exergy efficiencies of the considered system are found to be 18.18% and 19.15% respectively. The results show that the Mg-Cl cycle has good potential and attractive overall cycle efficiencies over 50%. © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Englishinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessEfficiency, Energy, Exergy, Hydrogen, Mg-cl Cycle, Solar Tower, Efficiency, Exergy, Hydrogen, Hydrogen Production, Magnesium Compounds, Solar Energy, Solar Power Generation, Efficiency Assessment, Energy, Energy And Exergy Efficiency, Performance Assessment, Reference Environments, Solar Energy Systems, Solar Towers, Thermochemical Cycles, Chlorine CompoundsEfficiency, Exergy, Hydrogen, Hydrogen production, Magnesium compounds, Solar energy, Solar power generation, Efficiency assessment, Energy, Energy and exergy efficiency, Performance assessment, Reference environments, Solar energy systems, Solar towers, Thermochemical cycles, Chlorine compoundsMg-Cl CycleEfficiencyHydrogenExergySolar TowerEnergyConference Object