Air-water 'tornado'-type microwave plasmas applied for sugarcane biomass treatment

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Bundaleska, N ^a   Tatarova, E ^a   Dias, F M ^a   Lino Da Silva, M ^a   Ferreira, C M ^a   Amorim, J ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO TECNOLÓGICO DE AERONÁUTICA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

biomass; microwave plasma; plasma pretreatment; sugarcane; vortex

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSIC MATERIAL; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (FT-IR); MICROWAVE PLASMA; MORPHOLOGICAL CHANGES; OPERATIONAL PARAMETERS; PLASMA PRE-TREATMENT; SYNERGISTIC EFFECT; TREATMENT PROCESS;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CELLULOSIC ETHANOL; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; MICROWAVES; PLASMA APPLICATIONS; PLASMAS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUGAR CANE; TORNADOES; VORTEX FLOW;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84892413815     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/5/055201     Document Type: Article

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