Plasma Technology for CO2 Conversion: A Personal Perspective on Prospects and Gaps

A Bogaerts, G Centi - Frontiers in Energy Research, 2020 - frontiersin.org
There is increasing interest in plasma technology for CO2 conversion because it can
operate at mild conditions and it can store fluctuating renewable electricity into value-added …

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 using catalyst-free and catalyst-assisted plasma-processes: Recent progress and understanding

G Chen, R Snyders, N Britun - Journal of CO2 Utilization, 2021 - Elsevier
The up to date progress, present status and future directions of CO 2 conversion in various
gaseous discharges are critically overviewed. The main theoretical aspects alongside with …

Carbon bed post-plasma to enhance the CO2 conversion and remove O2 from the product stream

F Girard-Sahun, O Biondo, G Trenchev… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
CO 2 conversion by plasma technology is gaining increasing interest. We present a carbon
(charcoal) bed placed after a Gliding Arc Plasmatron (GAP) reactor, to enhance the CO 2 …

Plasmas for in situ resource utilization on Mars: Fuels, life support, and agriculture

V Guerra, T Silva, N Pinhão, O Guaitella… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This work discusses the potential of combining non-thermal plasmas and conducting
membranes for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) on Mars. By converting different molecules …

[HTML][HTML] Plasma assisted CO2 dissociation in pure and gas mixture streams with a ferroelectric packed-bed reactor in ambient conditions

P Navascués, J Cotrino, AR González-Elipe… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide decomposition is a challenging target to combat climate change.
Nonthermal plasmas are advantageous for this purpose because they operate at ambient …

Comprehensive study on plasma chemistry and products in CO2 pulsed discharges under Martian pressure

XC Wang, JX Bai, TH Zhang, Y Sun, YT Zhang - Vacuum, 2022 - Elsevier
With the development of Mars exploration, the In-Situ resource utilization on Mars has been
drawn significant attention in recent years. The abundant CO 2 in the Martian atmosphere …

Exhaustive State-to-State Cross Sections and Rate Coefficients for Inelastic N2–N2 Collisions using QCT Combined with Neural Network Models

CM Guo, H Zhang, XL Cheng - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Using the quasi-classical trajectory method, we systematically studied the state-to-state
vibrational relaxation process of N2 (v 1)+ N2 (v 2) collisions over a wide temperature range …

Insights into the limitations to vibrational excitation of CO2: validation of a kinetic model with pulsed glow discharge experiments

O Biondo, C Fromentin, T Silva, V Guerra… - Plasma Sources …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Vibrational excitation represents an efficient channel to drive the dissociation of CO 2 in a
non-thermal plasma. Its viability is investigated in low-pressure pulsed discharges, with the …

Evidence of near-the-limit energy cost NO formation in atmospheric spark discharge

N Britun, V Gamaleev, M Hori - Plasma Sources Science and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We report a very low energy cost (EC) for nitric monoxide (NO) radical formation found in
atmospheric spark discharge. For this purpose non-equilibrium air discharges working in …