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Characteristics of Packed-bed Plasma Reactor with Dielectric Barrier Discharge for Treating

에틸렌 처리를 위한 충진층 유전체배리어방전 플라즈마 반응기의 특성

  • Sudhakaran, M.S.P. (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University) ;
  • Jo, Jin Oh (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University) ;
  • Trinh, Quang Hung (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University) ;
  • Mok, Young Sun (Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Jeju National University)
  • Received : 2015.05.29
  • Accepted : 2015.06.26
  • Published : 2015.08.10
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Abstract

This work investigated the characteristics of a packed-bed plasma reactor system and the performances of the plasma reactors connected in series or in parallel for the decomposition of ethylene. Before the discharge ignition, the effective capacitance of the ${\gamma}$-alumina packed-bed plasma reactor was larger than that of the reactor without any packing, but after the ignition the effective capacitance was similar to each other, regardless of the packing. The energy of electrons created by plasma depends mainly on the electric field intensity, and was not significantly affected by the gas composition in the range of 0~20% (v/v) oxygen (nitrogen : 80~100% (v/v)). Among the various reactive species generated by plasma, ground-state atomic oxygen and ozone are understood to be primarily involved in oxidation reactions, and as the electric field intensity increases, the amount of ground-state atomic oxygen relatively decreases while that of nitrogen atom increases. Even though there are many parameters affecting the performance of the plasma reactor such as a voltage, discharge power, gas flow rate and residence time, all parameters can be integrated into a single parameter, namely, specific input energy (SIE). It was experimentally confirmed that the performances of the plasma reactors connected in series or in parallel could be treated as a function of SIE alone, which simplifies the scale-up design procedure. Besides, the ethylene decomposition results can be predicted by the calculation using the rate constant expressed as a function of SIE.

본 연구에서는 충진층 플라즈마 반응기의 특성 및 에틸렌을 분해하는데 있어서 플라즈마 반응기의 직렬 및 병렬 배열에 따른 영향에 대해 조사하였다. 플라즈마 방전 개시 전의 반응기 유효 커패시턴스는 ${\gamma}$-알루미나 펠릿이 충진된 경우가 충진되지 않은 경우보다 컸으나, 일단 플라즈마 방전이 개시되고 나면 ${\gamma}$-알루미나 충진 여부와 관계없이 유효 커패시턴스가 유사하였다. 플라즈마 상태에서 생성되는 전자의 에너지는 전기장세기에 크게 의존하며, 0~20%(v/v) 범위의 산소농도(질소 : 80~100% (v/v))에서는 기체조성에 크게 영향을 받지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 플라즈마 상태에서 생성되는 여러 활성 성분들 중 바닥상태의 산소원자 및 오존이 산화 반응에 주로 관여하며, 전기장세기가 높아질수록 산소원자가 상대적으로 감소하는 대신 질소원자의 분율이 급격히 증가한다. 플라즈마 공정에서 전압, 방전 전력, 기체 유량, 체류시간 등 반응기의 성능에 영향을 주는 여러 가지 파라미터들이 있지만, 모든 파라미터들이 비에너지밀도 하나로 통합될 수 있음을 확인하였으며, 직렬 및 병렬로 연결된 반응기의 성능도 비에너지밀도만의 함수로 간주할 수 있으므로 반응기 설계 과정이 크게 단순화될 수 있다. 비에너지밀도의 함수로 나타낸 반응속도상수를 이용하여 계산한 결과도 실험데이터를 잘 예측할 수 있었다.

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