Routes to increase the conversion and the energy efficiency in the splitting of CO2 by a dielectric barrier discharge

Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 2017, Pages

  Ozkan, A ^a,b   Bogaerts, A ^b   Reniers, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

atmospheric plasma; CO2 conversion; dielectric; dielectric barrier discharge; discharge properties; temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DIELECTRIC DEVICES; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; FLOW CONTROL; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OPTICAL EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE;

ATMOSPHERIC PLASMAS; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; DIELECTRIC BARRIER DISCHARGES; DISCHARGE PROPERTIES; ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; INFRARED ANALYSIS; PLASMA PARAMETER;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

EID: 85012005053     PISSN: 00223727     EISSN: 13616463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6463/aa562c     Document Type: Article

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