Nonthermal plasmas

Futamura, S., Zhang, A., Prieto, G. and Yamamoto, T. (1998) Factors and intermediates governing byproduct distribution for decomposition of butane in nonthermal plasma, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 34, 967-74. 

Ogata, A., Mizuno, K., Kushiyama, S. and Yamamoto, T. (1998) Methane Decomposition in a Barium Titanate Packed-Bed Nonthermal Plasma Reactor, Plasma Chem. Plasma Process 18, 363-73. 

Mok, Y.S., Dors, M. and Mizerazcyk, J. (2004) Effect of reaction temperature on NOx removal and formation of ammonium nitrate in nonthermal plasma process combined with selective catalytic reduction, IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci. 32, 799-807. 

Kanazawa, S., Sumi, T., Shimamoto, S. et al. (2004) Diagnostics of NO oxidation process in a nonthermal plasma reactor Features of DC streamer-corona discharge and NO LIF profile, IEEE Trans. PI. Sci. 32, 25-31. 

Kwak, J.H., Szanyi, J. and Peden, C.H.F. (2003) Nonthermal plasma-assisted catalytic NOx reduction over Ba-Y, FAU The effect of catalyst preparation, J. Catal. 220, 291-8. 

Okubo, M., Inoue, M., Kuroki, T. et al. (2005) NOx reduction after treatment system using nitrogen nonthermal plasma desorption, IEEE Trans. Ind. Appl. 41, 891-9. 

Several types of nonthermal plasma systems have been reported in the literature for reforming of hydrocarbons to hydrogen-rich gas ... 

The plasma decomposition process is applicable to any hydrocarbon fuel, from methane to heavy hydrocarbons. Similar to oxidative plasma reforming, plasma decomposition processes fall into two major categories thermal and nonthermal plasma systems. 

Locke, BR Sato, M Sunka, P Hofifmaim, MR, Chang JS. Electrohydraulic diseharge and nonthermal plasma for water treatment Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2006 45 (3), 882-905. 

Exploration of new avenues to reduce emissions to comply with environmental regulations has always been a priority in the past decade. As regulations get more and more stringent, innovative concepts are researched and applied to real engines. Soot control has been an issue with hydrocarbon fuel combustion, both from emission and signature points of view. Certain signatures are of concern for military weapon and platform propulsion. Recently, nonthermal plasma techniques for remediation of emissions have been found to be a vi-... 

Kabashima H, Einaga H, Futamura S (2003) Hydrogen evolution from water, methane and methanol with nonthermal plasma. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications 39 340-345... 

Increasingly stringent environmental regulations imposed on both the military and civilian sectors has created a growing demand for alternative abatement methods for a variety of hazardous compounds. One alternative, the nonthermal plasma, shows promise of providing an efficient means for the destraction of dilute concentrations of hazardous air pollutants. Promising results have been obtained for toluene, methylene chloride, and dichlorodifluoromethane in air at concentrations of a few hundred parts per million. The device has been operated at voltages up to 30 kV, pulse repetition rates up to 1.4 kHz, and flow rates up to 60 1/min (Korzekwa et al., 1998). 

Utilization of Carbon Dioxide through Nonthermal Plasma Approaches... 

Recently, unusual plasma chemistry (especially nonthermal plasma) has attracted much attention with regards to the effective and efficient activation of C02. These nonthermal plasma approaches can even be performed at room temperature and atmospheric pressure. As nonthermal plasmas have also been successfully applied for the removal of NO and S02 from flue gases, an increasing number of investigations has been conducted to examine their use for C02 utilization. Nonthermal plasma approaches for C02 utilization were first... 

Gliding arc discharge This is a combination of high-power equilibrium arc discharge and better selectivity of nonthermal plasmas. It has also been reported to be used for the utilization of greenhouse gases such as CH4 and/or C02 [9-13],... 

As nonthermal plasma is a mixture of electrons, highly excited atoms and molecules, ions, radicals, photons, and so on, its chemistry is extremely complex, and highly selective products should not be expected via plasma chemistry. The basic reactions for controlling both the direction and reaction rate of plasma C02 utilization can be summarized as follows (here, A and B represent atoms, A2 and B2 molecules, e represents an electron, M is a temporary collision partner, and S represents a solid surface site. The excited species is indicated by an asterisk). 

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