Plasma Assisted Dry Reforming Of Methane In A Dielectric Barrier Discharge Dbd

Download or read book Plasma-assisted Dry Reforming of Methane in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) written by Flora Uwadiegwu and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Topics on conversion and utilization of methane and carbon dioxide are imperative as they tackle global warming effects from the two greenhouse gases (GHGs). Non-thermal plasma processes have been proposed as an efficient means to reform both gases as they have the advantage of realizing thermodynamically unfavorable reactions due to their unique non-equilibrium properties. Non-thermal processes also overcome the drawback of the high temperature required by conventional catalytic processes. In this work, an AC dielectric-barrier discharge (DBD) was used for the activation of methane and carbon dioxide to produce syngas. The effect of operating parameters such as CH4/CO2 mole ratio and feed gas flow rate on the performance of the plasma process were investigated in terms of the conversion of feed gas, product selectivity and energy conversion efficiency. The results show that the energy efficiency using a DBD is comparable with other dielectric-barrier discharges and even slightly higher but still relatively lower than that of the gliding arc primarily due to its smaller discharge volume." --