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http://dx.doi.org/10.14478/ace.2015.1066

Characteristics of Packed-bed Plasma Reactor with Dielectric Barrier Discharge for Treating  

Sudhakaran, M.S.P. (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University)
Jo, Jin Oh (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University)
Trinh, Quang Hung (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University)
Mok, Young Sun (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.26, no.4, 2015 , pp. 495-504 More about this Journal
Abstract
This work investigated the characteristics of a packed-bed plasma reactor system and the performances of the plasma reactors connected in series or in parallel for the decomposition of ethylene. Before the discharge ignition, the effective capacitance of the ${\gamma}$-alumina packed-bed plasma reactor was larger than that of the reactor without any packing, but after the ignition the effective capacitance was similar to each other, regardless of the packing. The energy of electrons created by plasma depends mainly on the electric field intensity, and was not significantly affected by the gas composition in the range of 0~20% (v/v) oxygen (nitrogen : 80~100% (v/v)). Among the various reactive species generated by plasma, ground-state atomic oxygen and ozone are understood to be primarily involved in oxidation reactions, and as the electric field intensity increases, the amount of ground-state atomic oxygen relatively decreases while that of nitrogen atom increases. Even though there are many parameters affecting the performance of the plasma reactor such as a voltage, discharge power, gas flow rate and residence time, all parameters can be integrated into a single parameter, namely, specific input energy (SIE). It was experimentally confirmed that the performances of the plasma reactors connected in series or in parallel could be treated as a function of SIE alone, which simplifies the scale-up design procedure. Besides, the ethylene decomposition results can be predicted by the calculation using the rate constant expressed as a function of SIE.
Keywords
packed-bed plasma reactor; series connection; parallel connection;
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