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CONTROL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY AN AC ENERGIZED FERROELECTRIC PELLET REACTOR AND A PULSED CORONA REACTOR
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Yamamoto, T., K Ramanathan, P. Lawless, D. S. Ensor, J. Newsome, N. Plaks*, AND G. Ramsey*. CONTROL OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS BY AN AC ENERGIZED FERROELECTRIC PELLET REACTOR AND A PULSED CORONA REACTOR. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRY APPLICATIONS 28(3):528-534, (1992).
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The paper gives results of a study to develop baseline engineering data to demonstrate the feasibility of application of plasma reactors to the destruction of various volatile organic compounds at ppm levels. Two laboratory-scale reactors, an alternating current energized ferroelectric (high dielectric ceramic) packed-bed reactor and a nanosecond-pulsed corona reactor, were constructed. Complete destruction was obtained for toluene. Conversions of methylene chloride at 95% and trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-113) at 67% were achieved for the plasma reactors used. Conversion was dependent on the electron energy of the reactor and was also related to how strongly halogen species were bonded with carbon.
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