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Lookup NU author(s): Faisal Saleem, Abdul Rehman, Dr Kui Zhang, Professor Adam Harvey
This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by American Chemical Society, 2020.
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Copyright © 2019 American Chemical Society. Nonthermal plasma is being considered as an alternative technique to reduce gasification tars. In this study, a dielectric barrier discharge reactor was used to decompose toluene (tar representative) in a synthetic product gas (CH4, CO, CO2, and H2). It was observed that the presence of methane in a model product gas significantly increased the selectivity of C2 (C2H6 + C2H4) hydrocarbons when increasing the temperature up to 400 °C at constant power (40 W). The effect of specific input energy (SIE) (2.05-16.4 kW h/m3) and temperature (20-400 °C) was investigated. The conversion of a tar model compound (toluene) increased at higher SIE. Solid residues and lower hydrocarbons (LHC) formed at ambient temperature. Solid residues create operational problems, but here we observe that the effect can be substantially reduced by operating at high temperatures. Solid formation was significantly decreased at 400 °C and 40 W. Furthermore, the selectivity of LHC (C2-C6) increased to 77%. However, CH4 decomposition decreased at high temperature because of the formation of methane at elevated temperatures.
Author(s): Saleem F, Umer J, Rehman A, Zhang K, Harvey A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Energy and Fuels
Year: 2020
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 1744-1749
Print publication date: 20/02/2020
Online publication date: 09/12/2019
Acceptance date: 04/12/2019
Date deposited: 17/02/2020
ISSN (print): 0887-0624
ISSN (electronic): 1520-5029
Publisher: American Chemical Society
URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b02309
DOI: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b02309
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