Plasma Catalysis for Volatile Organic Compounds Abatement

Plasma Catalysis for Volatile Organic Compounds Abatement 

This chapter deals with the combination of plasma with catalysis. It offers an effective solution to the environmental clean-up of pollutant VOCs in waste gas streams. Abatement of the halomethanes and hydrocarbons at low temperatures is detailed. The role of ozone in plasma catalysis remediation is also reviewed. 

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Different aspects of total oxidation processes are reviewed in the first part of the book hydrocarbon oxidation (Chapter 1) and soot oxidation (Chapter 2) for mobile appficafions while oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOC) is treated in the next five chapters. Chapter 3 provides a general overview of VOC oxidation while chlorinated VOCs are specifically discussed in Chapter 4 and persistent VOC in Chapter 5. Plasma catalysis processes for VOC abatement are reviewed in Chapter 6. Finally, Chapter 7 gives the point of view of industry for the development and applications of catalysis for air depollution technologies. Total oxidation is also used for energy production by combustion processes exemplified in Chapter 8. The last two chapters are devoted to oxidation processes in liquid media by electrochemical techniques (Chapter 9) or more generally as "advanced oxidation processes" for water depollution (Chapter 10). 

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