Journal
PLASMA SOURCES SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6595/aba1c8
Keywords
chemistry; microwave plasma; H2O; CO2; CO(2)conversion; modelling; cross sections
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- FWO-PhD fellowship-aspirant [1184820N]
- Portuguese FCT [UIDB/50010/2020, UIDP/50010/2020]
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Plasma has been studied for several years to convert CO(2)into value-added products. If CO(2)could be converted in the presence of H2O as a cheap H-source for making syngas and oxygenates, it would mimic natural photosynthesis. However, CO2/H2O plasmas have not yet been extensively studied, not by experiments, and certainly not computationally. Therefore, we present here a kinetic modelling study to obtain a greater understanding of the vibrational kinetics of a CO2/H2O microwave plasma. For this purpose, we first created an electron impact cross section set for H2O, using a swarm-derived method. We added the new cross section set and CO2/H2O-related chemistry to a pure CO(2)model. While it was expected that H2O addition mainly causes quenching of the CO(2)asymmetric mode vibrational levels due to the additional CO2/H2O vibrational-translational relaxation, our model shows that the modifications in the vibrational kinetics are mainly induced by the strong electron dissociative attachment to H2O molecules, causing a reduction in electron density, and the corresponding changes in the input of energy into the CO(2)vibrational levels by electron impact processes.
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