Controllability of Non-thermal Effect in Low Current Arc Plasma and Its Applications in Fuel Conversion : 저전류 아크 플라즈마에서의 저온 플라즈마 효과 제어 가능성 및 이를 이용한 연료 전환 공정

목차 (Table of Contents)

• Chapter 1. INTRODUCTION TO LOW CURRENT ARC TECHNOLOGY 1
• 1.1. Introduction to plasma technology 2
• 1.1.1. Artificial plasma 2
• 1.1.2. Characteristics and classification 2
• 1.1.3. Applications 3
• 1.1.4. Atmospheric plasma configurations 5
• 1.1.5. The selected plasma technology for investigation 7
• 1.2. Existing low current arc configurations 8
• 1.2.1. Low current and high current arc technology 8
• 1.2.2. Low current arc configurations 10
• 1.3. Rotating arc reactors for study 14
• 1.3.1. The conventional rotating arc reactor 14
• 1.3.2. The nozzle type rotating arc reactor 16
• 1.4. The goal of the thesis 17
• Chapter 2. THE NOZZLE TYPE ROTATING ARC PLASMA: PRINCIPLE AND CHARACTERISTICS 20
• 2.1. Arc discharge mode 21
• 2.1.1. Arc discharge mode in the conventional rotating arc reactor 21
• 2.1.2. Arc discharge mode in the nozzle type rotating arc reactor 23
• 2.2. Thermal effect: The key of arc plasma technology 25
• 2.2.1. Effect of reactor geometry 27
• 2.2.2. Effect of jet region 36
• 2.2.3. The effect of discharge gases 39
• 2.2.4. Effect of arc length 51
• 2.2.5. Heat balance 70
• 2.3. Non-Thermal effect in low current arcs: Controllability 74
• 2.3.1. Introduction 74
• 2.3.2. Experiment setup 76
• 2.3.3. Results and discussion 77
• 2.3.4. Remarks 86
• 2.4. Summary 86
• Chapter 3: APPLICATIONS 89
• 3.1. Methane direct conversion to acetylene 90
• 3.1.1. Introduction 90
• 3.1.2. Experiment setup 97
• 3.1.3. Results and discussions 98
• 3.1.4. Remarks 107
• 3.2. Dry reforming of methane 108
• 3.2.1. Introduction 108
• 3.2.2. Experiment setup 110
• 3.2.3. Results and discussions 111
• 3.2.4. Remarks 120
• 3.3. Biogas auto-thermal reforming: Role of plasma 120
• 3.3.1. Introduction 120
• 3.3.2. Experiment setup 121
• 3.3.3. Results and discussions 122
• 3.3.4. Remarks 126
• 3.4. Summary 127
• Chapter 4. CONCLUSION 128
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 131
• APPENDIX 134
• 1. Reactant feeding method 135
• 2. Experiment devices 135
• 2.1. Plasma power supply 135
• 2.2. Oscilloscope 136
• 2.3. Thermocouples 137
• 2.4. High speed cameras, timer 138
• 2.5. GC 138
• 3. The calculation methods 139
• 3.1. Electric power 139
• 3.2. Fuel conversion process 139
• REFERENCES 145