Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor

Jo, Sungkwon; Kim, Kwan-Tae; Kang, Woo Seok; Song, Young-Hoon

doi:10.1063/1.4897171

Title: Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor

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Methane has interested many researchers as a possible new energy source, but the high stability of methane causes a bottleneck in methane activation, limiting its practical utilization. To determine how to effectively activate methane using non-thermal plasma, the conversion of methane is measured in a planar-type dielectric barrier discharge reactor using three different noble gases—Ar, Kr, and Xe—as additives. In addition to the methane conversion results at various applied voltages, the discharge characteristics such as electron temperature and electron density were calculated through zero-dimensional calculations. Moreover, the threshold energies of excitation and ionization were used to distinguish the dominant particle for activating methane between electrons, excited atoms, and ionized atoms. From the experiments and calculations, the selection of the additive noble gas is found to affect not only the conversion of methane but also the selectivity of product gases even under similar electron temperature and electron density conditions.

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Jo, Sungkwon; Kim, Kwan-Tae; Kang, Woo Seok; Song, Young-Hoon ^[1]

Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, 156 Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-343 (Korea, Republic of)

Publication Date:: Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014

OSTI Identifier:: 22299716

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Physics of Plasmas

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 10; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; ADDITIVES; ATOMS; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRON DENSITY; ELECTRON TEMPERATURE; ENERGY SOURCES; METHANE; PLASMA; RARE GASES; THRESHOLD ENERGY

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                    Jo, Sungkwon, Lee, Dae Hoon, E-mail: dhlee@kimm.re.kr, Kim, Kwan-Tae, Kang, Woo Seok, and Song, Young-Hoon. Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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                    Jo, Sungkwon, Lee, Dae Hoon, E-mail: dhlee@kimm.re.kr, Kim, Kwan-Tae, Kang, Woo Seok, & Song, Young-Hoon. Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4897171

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                    Jo, Sungkwon, Lee, Dae Hoon, E-mail: dhlee@kimm.re.kr, Kim, Kwan-Tae, Kang, Woo Seok, and Song, Young-Hoon. 2014.  
        "Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4897171.

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@article{osti_22299716,

  title        = {Methane activation using Kr and Xe in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor},

  author       = {Jo, Sungkwon and Lee, Dae Hoon, E-mail: dhlee@kimm.re.kr and Kim, Kwan-Tae and Kang, Woo Seok and Song, Young-Hoon},

  abstractNote = {Methane has interested many researchers as a possible new energy source, but the high stability of methane causes a bottleneck in methane activation, limiting its practical utilization. To determine how to effectively activate methane using non-thermal plasma, the conversion of methane is measured in a planar-type dielectric barrier discharge reactor using three different noble gases—Ar, Kr, and Xe—as additives. In addition to the methane conversion results at various applied voltages, the discharge characteristics such as electron temperature and electron density were calculated through zero-dimensional calculations. Moreover, the threshold energies of excitation and ionization were used to distinguish the dominant particle for activating methane between electrons, excited atoms, and ionized atoms. From the experiments and calculations, the selection of the additive noble gas is found to affect not only the conversion of methane but also the selectivity of product gases even under similar electron temperature and electron density conditions.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.4897171},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22299716},
  journal      = {Physics of Plasmas},

  issn         = {1070-664X},

  number       = 10,

  volume       = 21,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014},

  month        = {Wed Oct 15 00:00:00 EDT 2014}

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