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Plasma Technology: An Emerging Technology for Energy Storage | ACS Energy Letters 2019 -
Energies | Special Issue : Plasma Processes for Renewable Energy Technologies (mdpi.com) Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The use of renewable energy is an effective solution for the prevention of global warming. On the other hand, environmental plasmas are one of powerful means to solve global environmental problems on nitrogen oxides, (NOx), sulfur oxides (SOx), particulate matter (PM), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and carbon dioxides (CO2) in the atmosphere. By combining both technologies, we can develop an extremely effective environmental improvement technology. Based on this background, a Special Issue of the journal Energies on plasma processes for renewable energy technologies is planned. On the issue, we focus on environment plasma technologies that can effectively utilize renewable electric energy sources, such as photovoltaic power generation, biofuel power generation, wind turbine power generation, etc. However, any latest research results on plasma environmental improvement processes are welcome for submission. We are looking, among others, for papers on the following technical subjects in which either plasma can use renewable energy sources or can be used for renewable energy technologies:
- Plasma decomposition technology of harmful gases, such as the plasma denitrification method;
- Plasma removal technology of harmful particles, such as electrostatic precipitation;
- Plasma decomposition technology of harmful substances in liquid, such as gas–liquid interfacial plasma;
- Plasma-enhanced flow induction and heat transfer enhancement technologies, such as ionic wind device and plasma actuator;
- Plasma-enhanced combustion and fuel reforming;
- Other environment plasma technologies.
Prof. Dr. Masaaki Okubo
Guest Editor
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The feasibility of renewable natural gas as a large-scale, low carbon substitute https://ww2.arb.ca.gov › classic › research › apr PDF par AM Jaffe —
renewable natural gas (RNG) industry in the state of California, with distribution into the ... High- temperature and plasma gasification are currently the dominant.
1.1.3 GASIFICATION- STANDARD AND PLASMA
Waste can also be gasified through systems that converting a feedstock (MSW, biomass, coal etc.), through high temperature thermal decomposition in a low oxygen environment, into synthesis gas. High- temperature and plasma gasification are currently the dominant technologies being developed. Gasification typically occurs at temperatures ranging from 480-1,650°C (900-3,000F°). Gasification has been in place for over 60 years in refining, chemicals, and energy production.
The syngas produced can be then processed into a variety of other products including heat, energy or fuel. There may be some pretreatment of the feedstock required before gasification can occur. This varies between different technologies, and the feedstock used. Pretreatment can include sorting out recyclable materials, shredding or resizing the material, and drying the material4,5 .
High temperature gasification can convert multiple types of feedstock into syngas with minimal residual metal and slag (an inert, glass-like material). This can be done with a fluidized bed (typically glass or salt), moving bed, fixed bed, and entrained flow6,7 . This technology may require some drying, presorting and grinding of materials before introduction into the gasification unit.
2018 - Greenhouse Gases Reforming and Hydrogen Upgrading by Using Warm Plasma Technology | IntechOpen
Open access peer-reviewed chapter Abstract
Global warming is an alarming problem with adverse impact on climate change. Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) have been identified as the most significant greenhouse gases (GHG) normally arising from anthropogenic activities; therefore, promising treatment technologies are developing all over the world to resolve this problem. The warm plasma is an emergent process with low specific energy requirement capable to reach high temperature to produce excited species and support subsequent chemical reactions. Consequently, warm plasma reactors can be accomplished with simple structure reactors having high gas flow rates and treatment capacity. Plasma interaction with GHG leads into a molecular dissociation, mainly forming CO and H2, also known as syngas, which represents an alternative energy source with innovative applications in microturbines and fuel cells, among other emerging applications. The process here explained assures a significant reduction in CO2 emission and H2 yield upgrading. The reforming experimental results by using two warm plasma reactors are connected in series to improve the syngas yield. This alternative represents a great possibility for CO2 conversion.
A short-term alternative is to use a primary source of energy, in this case GHGs or biogas resulting from biodigester and its treatment with plasma to obtain syngas. The provisional storage of this chemical energy contained in the syngas represents a viable alternative either for its “a posteriori” reconversion or for its direct reconversion “in situ” to electrical energy using fuel cells.
... In the dry reforming technique, an ideal H2/CO ratio close to 1 must be obtained, and this ratio can be easily modified by controlling the concentration of reactants at the inlet supply. Therefore, the syngas obtained from the dry reforming can be used in the synthesis of a variety of chemicals in much more extensive manners than in the other reforming processes. Another advantage of dry reforming is that CO2 content can be exploited in natural gas sources, biogases, coal-methane, and organic waste.