Advances in non-equilibrium plasma kinetics: a theoretical and experimental review

LD Pietanza, O Guaitella, V Aquilanti… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Numerous applications have required the study of CO 2 plasmas since the 1960s, from CO 2
lasers to spacecraft heat shields. However, in recent years, intense research activities on the …

CO2 conversion by plasma technology: insights from modeling the plasma chemistry and plasma reactor design

A Bogaerts, A Berthelot, S Heijkers… - Plasma Sources …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent years there has been growing interest in the use of plasma technology for CO 2
conversion. To improve this application, a good insight into the underlying mechanisms is of …

Modeling Plasma-based CO2 and CH4 Conversion in Mixtures with N2, O2, and H2O: The Bigger Plasma Chemistry Picture

W Wang, R Snoeckx, X Zhang, MS Cha… - The Journal of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Because of the unique properties of plasma technology, its use in gas conversion
applications is gaining significant interest around the globe. Plasma-based CO2 and CH4 …

Modeling of CO2 Splitting in a Microwave Plasma: How to Improve the Conversion and Energy Efficiency

A Berthelot, A Bogaerts - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2017 - ACS Publications
Microwave plasmas are one of the most promising techniques for CO2 conversion into value-
added chemicals and fuels since they are very energy efficient. Nevertheless, experiments …

Modeling plasma-based CO2 conversion: crucial role of the dissociation cross section

A Bogaerts, W Wang, A Berthelot… - … Sources Science and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma-based CO 2 conversion is gaining increasing interest worldwide. A large research
effort is devoted to improving the energy efficiency. For this purpose, it is very important to …

Plasma based CO2 and CH4 conversion: A modeling perspective

A Bogaerts, C De Bie, R Snoeckx… - Plasma Processes and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper gives an overview of our plasma chemistry modeling for CO2 and CH4
conversion in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) and microwave (MW) plasma. We focus …

Performance analysis of a 2.45 GHz microwave plasma torch for CO2 decomposition in gas swirl configuration

FA D'Isa, EAD Carbone, A Hecimovic… - … Sources Science and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Microwave plasmas are a promising technology for energy-efficient CO 2 valorization via
conversion of CO 2 into CO and O 2 using renewable energies. A 2.45 GHz microwave …

Analysis of the C2 Swan bands as a thermometric probe in CO2 microwave plasmas

E Carbone, F D'Isa, A Hecimovic… - Plasma Sources Science …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The optical emission spectra of high pressure CO 2 microwave plasmas are usually
dominated by the C 2 Swan bands. In this paper, the use of the C 2 Swan bands for …

N2 dissociation and kinetics of N (4S) atoms in nitrogen DC glow discharge

AV Volynets, DV Lopaev, TV Rakhimova… - Journal of Physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
N 2 dissociation in pure nitrogen plasma has a long history of research. It seems to be a
complex process which comprises many reactions involving various electronic and …

Mechanisms of coupled vibrational relaxation and dissociation in carbon dioxide

I Armenise, E Kustova - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2018 - ACS Publications
A complete vibrational state-specific kinetic scheme describing dissociating carbon dioxide
mixtures is proposed. CO2 symmetric, bending and asymmetric vibrations and dissociation …