Thermal plasma destruction of ozone-depleting substances: Technologies and chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetic and fluid dynamic modelling

High Temperature Material Processes

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 415-433

  Murphy, A B ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

CFC; Chlorofluorocarbon; Halon; Montreal Protocol; Plasma waste destruction; Thermal plasma

Indexed keywords

BROMINE; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; OXIDATION; OZONE LAYER; REACTION KINETICS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CHEMICAL EQUILIBIRIUM; OZONE DEPLETION; PLASMA WASTE DESTRUCTION;

PLASMA TORCHES;

EID: 2642557967     PISSN: 10933611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/HighTempMatProc.v7.i4.10     Document Type: Conference Paper

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