Fundamental insights and emerging opportunities in plasma catalysis for light alkane conversion

DJ Haycock, RJ Clarke, DB Go, WF Schneider… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
With increasingly available renewable sources of electricity, plasma catalysis could be a key
component in the decarbonization of natural gas and greenhouse gas (GHG) valorization …

Sorption-enhanced dry reforming of methane in a DBD plasma reactor for single-stage carbon capture and utilization

R Vertongen, G De Felice… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Plasma–sorbent systems are a novel technology for single-stage carbon capture and
utilization (CCU), where the plasma enables the desorption of CO2 from a sorbent and the …

Plasma-based conversion of CO2 and CH4 into syngas: A dive into the effect of adding water

B Wanten, Y Gorbanev, A Bogaerts - Fuel, 2024 - Elsevier
Plasma technology can play a vital role in the electrification and decarbonization of chemical
processes. In this work, we carried out the bi-reforming of methane (BRM), producing syngas …

Non-equilibrium plasma co-upcycling of waste plastics and CO 2 for carbon-negative oleochemicals

H Radhakrishnan, S Gnangbe, A Duereh, SUI Uday… - Green …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanical recycling and chemical upcycling by thermochemical reactions have been the
major approaches for recycling end-of-life plastics. Herein, we report an electrified approach …

Plasma-catalytic dry reforming of CH4: Effects of plasma-generated species on the surface chemistry

J Sun, Q Chen, W Qin, H Wu, B Liu, S Li… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
By means of steady-state experiments and a global model, we studied the effects of plasma-
generated reactive species on the surface chemistry and coking in plasma-catalytic CH …

Plasma‐catalytic one‐step steam reforming of methane to methanol: Revealing the catalytic cycle on Cu/mordenite

Y Hao, S Li, W Fang, X Wang, Z Cui, KM Bal… - AIChE …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Direct CH4 to CH3OH conversion is a long‐standing grand challenge in catalysis.
We present one‐step steam reforming of methane to methanol (OSRMtM) by combining an …

Plasma-Assisted Carbon Dioxide Methane Reforming: Relationships of the Formation of Oxygenates on Adding a Catalyst (a Review)

OV Golubev, PS Il'chuk, AL Maximov - Petroleum Chemistry, 2024 - Springer
Published data on plasma-assisted carbon dioxide methane reforming using heterogeneous
catalysts are analyzed. The pathways of the CH4 and CO2 transformation under the …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning-driven optimization of plasma-catalytic dry reforming of methane

Y Cai, D Mei, Y Chen, A Bogaerts, X Tu - Journal of Energy Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the dry reformation of methane (DRM) over Ni/Al 2 O 3 catalysts in a
dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) non-thermal plasma reactor. A novel hybrid machine …

Plasma-Catalyzed One-Step Synthesis of Alcohols from CO2 over Cu/γ-Al2O3 Catalyst

X Liu, P Si, Y Zhang, L Cui, Y Feng… - Industrial & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The direct conversion of CO2 and CH4 into value-added chemicals at room temperature and
atmospheric pressure poses a significant challenge in the chemical field. Nonthermal …

Facilitating CO2–CH4 Reforming Into Syngas and Useful Chemicals by Water‐Cooled Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma: Effect of Discharge Power, Gas Mixing …

T Chang, X Chang, A Labidi, C Ma… - Plasma Processes …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT CO2 reforming of CH4 to syngas (H2 and CO) has emerged as one of the
attractive options for mitigating carbon emissions. Here, a water‐cooled dielectric barrier …