Saleem Faisal, Khoja Asif Hussain, Sharif Rabia, Rehman Abdul, Naqvi Salman Raza, Qazi Umair Yaqub, Zhang Kui, Harvey Adam
Chemical and Polymer Engineering Department, UET Lahore, Faisalabad Campus, Pakistan.
Fossil Fuels Laboratory, Department of Thermal Energy Engineering, U.S-Pakistan Centre for Advanced Studies in Energy (USPCAS-E), National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST), Sector H-12, Islamabad, 44000, Pakistan.
Heliyon. 2023 Mar 5;9(3):e14237. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14237. eCollection 2023 Mar.
In this research, a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor is used to study the cracking of the toluene into C-C hydrocarbons. The combined effect of parameters such as temperature (20-400 °C) and plasma power (10-40 W) was investigated to evaluate the DBD reactor performance. The main gaseous products from the decomposition of toluene include lower hydrocarbon (C-C). The cracking of toluene increases with power at all temperatures (20-400 °C). On the otherhand, it decreases from 92.8 to 73.1% at 10 W, 97.2 to 80.5% at 20, 97.5 to 86.5% at 30 W, and 98.4 to 93.7% at 40 W with raising the temperature from 20 to 400 °C. Nonetheless, as the temperature and plasma input power increase, the methane yield increases. At 40 W, the maximum methane yield was 5.1%. At 10 and 20 W, the selectivity to C increases as the temperature rises up to 400 °C. At 30 and 40 W, it began to drop after 300 °C due to the formation of methane and the yield of methane increases significantly beyond this temperature.
在本研究中，使用介质阻挡放电（DBD）反应器来研究甲苯裂解为碳 - 碳烃类的过程。研究了温度（20 - 400°C）和等离子体功率（10 - 40W）等参数的综合影响，以评估DBD反应器的性能。甲苯分解产生的主要气态产物包括低碳烃（碳 - 碳）。在所有温度（20 - 400°C）下，甲苯的裂解率随功率增加而提高。另一方面，随着温度从20°C升高到400°C，在10W时，裂解率从92.8%降至73.1%；在20W时，从97.2%降至80.5%；在30W时，从97.5%降至86.5%；在40W时，从98.4%降至93.7%。尽管如此，随着温度和等离子体输入功率的增加，甲烷产率增加。在40W时，最大甲烷产率为5.1%。在10W和20W时，随着温度升高至400°C，对碳的选择性增加。在30W和40W时，由于甲烷的形成，在300°C后选择性开始下降，且超过该温度后甲烷产率显著增加。
