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Nonthermal Plasma-Driven Catalysis of Benzene and Toluene

저온플라즈마 구동 촉매 반응기를 이용한 벤젠과 톨루엔의 처리

  • Kim, Hyun-Ha (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST)) ;
  • Ogata, Atsushi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST)) ;
  • Futamura, Shigeru (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology(AIST))
  • Published : 2006.02.01
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Abstract

Nonthermal plasma-driven catalysis (PDC) was investigated for the decomposition of benzene and toluene as model compounds of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at atmospheric pressure and low temperature. Two types of catalysts Ag/$TiO_{2}$ and Pt/$\gamma-Al_{2}O_{3}$ were tested in this study. The amount of catalysts packed in the PDC reactor did not influence on the decomposition efficiency of benzene. The type of catalysts also had no influence on the decomposition efficiency of toluene and carbon balance. The Ag/$TiO_{2}$ catalyst showed constant $CO_{2}$ selectivity of about $73\%$ regardless of the specific input energy. However, the selectivity of $CO_{2}$ was greatly enhanced with the Pt/$\gamma-Al_{2}O_{3}$ catalysts, and reached $97\%$ at 205 J/L. Two test runs with 20 fold difference in the gas flow clearly indicated that lab-scale data can be successfully applied for the scaling-up of PDC system.

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