PROCESSES OF TRANSFER IN A LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASMA


INFLUENCE OF ENERGY CONTRIBUTIONSTO A HIGH-VOLTAGE ATMOSPHERIC- PRESSUREDISCHARGE ON THE EFFICIENCY OF CONVERSIONOF ETHANOL
S. A. Zhdanok, A. V. Krauklis,P. P. Samtsov, and A. V. Suvorov UDC 533.951 The results of experimental investigations of the conversion of ethanol in a high-voltage atmospheric-pressure discharge have been presented. The influence of the energy parameters of the discharge on the yield and energy cost of conversion products has been investigated. It has been established that the minimum energy cost of hydrogen is possible in regimes of discharge burning with a maximum degree of nonequilibrium of the plasma. A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 6, pp. 3-6, November-December, 2006. Original article submitted February 13, 2006.