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An overview of hydrogen production technologies

During the last two decades atmospheric (or high) pressure non-thermal plasmas in and in contact with liquids have received a lot of attention in view of their considerable environmental and medical applications. The simultaneous generation of intense UV radiation, shock waves and active radicals makes these discharges particularly suitable for decontamination, sterilization and purification purposes. This paper reviews the current status of research on atmospheric pressure non-thermal discharges in and in contact with liquids. The emphasis is on their generation mechanisms and their physical characteristics.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0022-3727/42/5/053001/pdf

Non-thermal plasmas in and in contact with liquids

The application of strong electric fields in water and organic liquids has been studied for several years, because of its importance in electrical transmission processes and its practical applications in biology, chemistry, and electrochemistry. More recently, liquid-phase electrical discharge reactors have been investigated, and are being developed, for many environmental applications, including drinking water and wastewater treatment, as well as, potentially, for environmentally benign chemical processes. This paper reviews the current status of research on the application of high-voltage electrical discharges for promoting chemical reactions in the aqueous phase, with particular emphasis on applications to water cleaning.

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Electrohydraulic Discharge and Nonthermal Plasma for Water Treatment

There has been considerable interest in non-thermal atmospheric pressure discharges over the past decade due to the increased number of industrial applications. Diverse applications demand a solid physical and chemical understanding of the operational principals of such discharges. This paper focuses on the four most important and widely used varieties of non-thermal discharges: corona, dielectric barrier, gliding arc and spark discharge. The physics of these discharges is closely related to the breakdown phenomena. The main players in electrical breakdown of gases: avalanches and streamers are also discussed in this paper. Although non-thermal atmospheric pressure discharges have been intensively studied for the past century, a clear physical picture of these discharges is yet to be obtained.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0022-3727/38/2/R01/pdf

Non-thermal atmospheric pressure discharges

Plasma assisted combustion: Dynamics and chemistry

Gliding arc gas discharge

Gliding discharges comprising both equilibrium and nonequilibrium plasma conditions offer high energy efficiency and selectivity for chemical processes. Prevailing parameters satisfying nonequilibrium plasma conditions at relatively high power levels should be well understood and characterized. In the present work, gliding discharges formed between diverging electrodes in air flow were studied experimentally over a wide range of gas velocities and power levels. Depending on the system parameters the following discharge regimes were observed: low power nonequilibrium discharge; thermal quasiequilibrium discharge; and gliding discharge with equilibrium to nonequilibrium transition. The effect of system parameters on discharge characteristics is analyzed. The equilibrium to nonequilibrium transition was experimentally observed as a change of voltage increase rate with discharge length growth. The local electric field, defined as dV/dl, increased up to three times, indicating the change of plasma conditions. However, previously reported phenomenon of length explosion was not supported by our experimental data. The co-existence of equilibrium and nonequilibrium phases is also discussed in the frame of phenomenological theory, assuming formation of a growing nonequilibrium fragment inside the gliding discharge channel. It was found that high flow velocities provide intensive cooling, an increase of electric field, and a decrease of gas temperature, promoting equilibrium to nonequilibrium transition at high power levels.

Thermal and nonthermal regimes of gliding arc discharge in air flow

Employing plasma as catalyst in hydrogen production

The properties of the non-equilibrium Gliding Arc plasma were studied both experimentally and theoretically. The propagation of the plasma column was recorded continuously by using a high-speed video camera. A theoretical model was developed to determine the characteristics of the equilibrium-nonequilibrium transition. The transition is explained by the drastic change of the dominant ionization channel when the contribution of the thermal ionization to the electron density balance becomes less important than that of the direct electron impact ionization. According to our theoretical model, the majority of the Gliding Arc power (up to 75–80%) can be dissipated in the cold non-equilibrium stage. Powerful non-equilibrium plasma can be generated from the initially thermal Gliding Arc discharge.

Ozlem Mutaf-Yardimci

Papers

Gliding arc gas discharge

Thermal and nonthermal regimes of gliding arc discharge in air flow

Employing plasma as catalyst in hydrogen production

Non‐Equilibrium Effects in Gliding Arc Dischargesa

Plasma-Catalytic Treatment of Organic Compounds in Atmospheric Pressure Non-Equilibrium Discharges