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RSC ADVANCES
卷 5, 期 38, 页码 29799-29808出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5ra01100k
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- IAP/7 (Inter-university Attraction Pole) program 'PSI-Physical Chemistry of Plasma-Surface Interactions'
- Belgian Federal Office for Science Policy (BELSPO)
- Fund for Scientific Research Flanders (FWO)
- Hercules Foundation
- Flemish Government (department EWI)
- University of Antwerp
- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) CO2Chem Network
- Knowledge Exchange (KE) fund of the University of Liverpool
Dry reforming of methane has gained significant interest over the years. A novel reforming technique with great potential is plasma technology. One of its drawbacks, however, is energy consumption. Therefore, we performed an extensive computational study, supported by experiments, aiming to identify the influence of the operating parameters (gas mixture, power, residence time and frequency) of a dielectric barrier discharge plasma on the conversion and energy efficiency, and to investigate which of these parameters lead to the most promising results and whether these are eventually sufficient for industrial implementation. The best results, in terms of both energy efficiency and conversion, are obtained at a specific energy input (SEI) of 100 J cm(-3), a 10-90 CH4-CO2 ratio, 10 Hz, a residence time of 1 ms, resulting in a total conversion of 84% and an energy efficiency of 8.5%. In general, increasing the CO2 content in the gas mixture leads to a higher conversion and energy efficiency. The SEI couples the effect of the power and residence time, and increasing the SEI always results in a higher conversion, but somewhat lower energy efficiencies. The effect of the frequency is more complicated: we observed that the product of frequency (f) and residence time (s), being a measure for the total number of microdischarge filaments which the gas molecules experience when passing through the reactor, was critical. For most cases, a higher number of filaments yields higher values for conversion and energy efficiency. To benchmark our model predictions, we also give an overview of measured conversions and energy efficiencies reported in the literature, to indicate the potential for improvement compared to the state-ofthe art. Finally, we identify the limitations as well as the benefits and future possibilities of plasma technology.
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