Plasma‐assisted decomposition of methanol and trichloroethylene in atmospheric pressure air streams by electrical discharge processing
作者:
M. C. Hsiao,
B. T. Merritt,
B. M. Penetrante,
G. E. Vogtlin,
P. H. Wallman,
期刊:
Journal of Applied Physics
(AIP Available online 1995)
卷期:
Volume 78,
issue 5
页码: 3451-3456
ISSN:0021-8979
年代: 1995
DOI:10.1063/1.359976
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Experiments are presented on the plasma‐assisted decomposition of dilute concentrations of methanol and trichloroethylene in atmospheric pressure air streams by electrical discharge processing. This investigation used two types of discharge reactors, a dielectric‐barrier and a pulsed corona discharge reactor, to study the effects of gas temperature and electrical energy input on the decomposition chemistry and byproduct formation. Our experimental data on both methanol and trichloroethylene show that, under identical gas conditions, the type of electrical discharge reactor does not affect the energy requirements for decomposition or byproduct formation. Our experiments on methanol show that discharge processing converts methanol to COxwith an energy yield that increases with temperature. In contrast to the results from methanol, COxis only a minor product in the decomposition of trichloroethylene. In addition, higher temperatures decrease the energy yield for trichloroethylene. This effect may be due to increased competition from decomposition of the byproducts dichloroacetyl chloride and phosgene. In all cases plasma processing using an electrical discharge device produces CO preferentially over CO2.
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