High-power pulsed corona for treatment of pollutants in heterogeneous media

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 34, Issue 5 I, 2006, Pages 1731-1743

  Pokryvailo, Alex ^a,h   Wolf, Michael ^a   Yankelevich, Yefim ^a   Wald, Shlomo ^a   Grabowski, L R ^b   van Veldhuizen, Eddie M ^b   Rutgers, Wijnand R ^c   Reiser, Martin ^d   Glocker, B ^e   Eckhardt, T ^d   Kempenaers, Peter ^f   Welleman, Adriaan ^g  

^a Propulsion Physics Laboratory   (Israel)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c KEMA   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e PlasmaAir AG   (Germany)

^f De Neef Chemical Recycling NV   (Belgium)

^g ABB SWITZERLAND LTD   (Switzerland)

^h BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Catalyst; Fast solid state switching; Heterogeneous media; Magnetic compression; Pulsed corona (PC); Streamer

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CATALYSTS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; ELECTRIC CORONA; ODOR REMOVAL; STYRENE; TOLUENE;

FAST SOLID-STATE SWITCHING; HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA; HIGH-POWER PULSED CORONA; MAGNETIC COMPRESSION; STREAMER;

WATER TREATMENT;

EID: 33750409973     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2006.881281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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