A Review of Non-Thermal Plasma Technology: A novel solution for CO2 conversion and utilization

A George, B Shen, M Craven, Y Wang, D Kang… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Increasing attention has been drawn to carbon dioxide (CO 2) conversion into higher-value
platform chemicals and synthetic fuels due to global warming. These reactions require a …

Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

Y Ju, W Sun - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2015 - Elsevier
Plasma assisted combustion is a promising technology to improve engine performance,
increase lean burn flame stability, reduce emissions, and enhance low temperature fuel …

Relaxation of electronic excitation in nitrogen/oxygen and fuel/air mixtures: fast gas heating in plasma-assisted ignition and flame stabilization

NA Popov, SM Starikovskaia - Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Fast gas heating (FGH) is an abrupt increase in gas temperature in non-equilibrium low-
temperature plasma due to relaxation of electronically excited states of atoms and …

A review of the combustion and emissions properties of advanced transportation biofuels and their impact on existing and future engines

JM Bergthorson, MJ Thomson - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The fundamental combustion and emissions properties of advanced biofuels are reviewed,
and their impact on engine performance is discussed, in order to guide the selection of …

Plasma-assisted ignition and combustion

A Starikovskiy, N Aleksandrov - Progress in Energy and Combustion …, 2013 - Elsevier
The use of a thermal equilibrium plasma for combustion control dates back more than a
hundred years to the advent of internal combustion (IC) engines and spark ignition systems …

The 2012 plasma roadmap

S Samukawa, M Hori, S Rauf… - Journal of Physics D …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Low-temperature plasma physics and technology are diverse and interdisciplinary fields.
The plasma parameters can span many orders of magnitude and applications are found in …

Plasma assisted ignition and combustion

SM Starikovskaia - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In recent decades particular interest in applications of nonequilibrium plasma for the
problems of plasma-assisted ignition and plasma-assisted combustion has been observed …

Ultrafast heating and oxygen dissociation in atmospheric pressure air by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges

DL Rusterholtz, DA Lacoste, GD Stancu… - Journal of Physics D …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
A detailed experimental investigation of the mechanism of ultrafast heating and oxygen
dissociation produced by nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in atmospheric …

Flames with plasmas

DA Lacoste - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium plasma discharges can create a favorable environment for combustion
processes, at low energy cost.“How favorable?” and “How low?” are two open questions that …

Transitions between corona, glow, and spark regimes of nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges in air at atmospheric pressure

DZ Pai, DA Lacoste, CO Laux - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
In atmospheric pressure air preheated from 300 to 1000 K, the nanosecond repetitively
pulsed (NRP) method has been used to generate corona, glow, and spark discharges …