Aerosol formation from styrene removal with an AC/DC streamer corona plasma system in air

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 232, Issue , 2013, Pages 527-533

  Zhang, Xuming ^a   Feng, Fada ^a   Li, Shuran ^a   Tang, Xiujuan ^a   Huang, Yifan ^a   Liu, Zhen ^a   Yan, Keping ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aerosol; Corona discharge; Non thermal plasma; Plasma processing; Volatile organic compounds

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL COLLECTIONS; AEROSOL FORMATION; CORONA DISCHARGES; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; NUMBER CONCENTRATION; OXIDATION PROCESS; RELATED COMPOUNDS; TOTAL NUMBER CONCENTRATIONS;

ELECTRIC CORONA; OZONE; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMA DEVICES; PLASMA POLYMERIZATION; PLASMA THEORY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STYRENE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS;

AEROSOLS;

EID: 84883498860     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2013.08.009     Document Type: Article

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