the experimental studies of methane conversion to higher hydrocarbons and methanol using a dielectric barrier discharge (dbd) reactor are presented in this article. the process is carried out at ambient atmospheric pressure and temperature. the dbd reactor is stimulated by an alternative voltage of 50 hz and amplitude of max.23kv. the examination of the effect of voltage and flow rates on metha...

the direct conversion of methane to c2 hydrocarbons, in a quartz tube reactor enforced by a dc corona discharge, was investigated at atmospheric pressure. the process was carried out in the presence of metal oxide catalysts of mn/w/sio2, mn/w/sio2 (tetraethyl orthosilicate, teos), and mn/w/cnt (supported on carbon nanotubes). the total yield to c2 hydrocarbons in the presence of metal oxide cat...

abstract in this work, the dry reforming of methane was studied using a corona and glow discharge plasma microreactors. a chemical kinetic model was developed to understand the reaction better. the modelization allowed prediction of the reactants conversion according to the energy transfer to the gas (p×τ). the β value is trait of the energy cost, whatever this value was leeser indicated better...

Plasma-activated fuel cell operation is examined using dielectric-barrier discharges introduced into the inlet fuel and air streams of laboratory proton exchange membrane (PEM) based devices. We compare the performance of the hydrogen-driven-PEM fuel cell in the presence/absence of the plasma discharge, and under conditions of three different types of membrane electrode assemblies (MEAs). The r...

Gas discharge plasmas are widely used in many modern technologies. Unique properties of these weaklyionized plasmas are determined by their highly non-equilibrium state: distributions of electrons and ions substantially deviate from (equilibrium) Maxwellian distributions. These deviations are especially important for electrons which are responsible for ionization processes and plasma maintenanc...

A non-equilibrium plasma assisted combustion system was developed by integrating a counterflow burner with a nano-second pulser to study the effects of atomic oxygen production on the extinction limits of methane diffusion flames at low pressure conditions. The production of atomic oxygen from the repetitive nano-second plasma discharge was measured by using two-photon absorption laser-induced ...

We present a non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation of 125 methane molecules using a variant of the isokinetic “sllod” algorithm. The shear viscosity, pressure and internal energy of methane in a dense, supercritical fluid state (temperature 285.7 K and mass density 0.288 g/cm3) are calculated and the viscosity compared with experiment, with excellent agreement: the predicted shear visco...

The effect of a stabilized non-equilibrium gliding arc plasma discharge on the stabilization and extinction of nitrogen diluted, methane/air counterflow diffusion flames was investigated both experimentally and numerically. To quantify the effect, extinction limits and flame temperature profiles via Rayleigh scattering were measured, calculated and compared to numerical simulations using detail...