Toluene removal is investigated in filamentary plasmas produced in N 2 and in N 2 /O 2 mixtures by a pulse high voltage energised DBD. Influence of the oxygen percentage (lower than 10%) and of the temperature (lower than 350°C) is examined. Toluene is removed in N 2 through collisions with electrons and nitrogen excited states. The removal efficiency is a few higher in N 2 /O 2 . It increases when the temperature increases for N 2 and N 2 /O 2 . Both H-and O-atoms play an important role in toluene removal because H can readily recombine with O to form OH, which is much more reactive with toluene than O. H follows from dissociation of toluene and of hydrogenated by-products by electron collisions. Detection of cyanhidric acid, acetylene, formaldehyde, and methyl nitrate strengthens that dissociation processes, to produce H and CH 3 , must be taken into account in kinetic analysis. Formation and treatment of deposits are also analysed.
This work presents spatial (axial-z and transversal-y) and temporal distributions of Ar(1s 5 ) metastable absolute densities in an atmospheric pressure argon micro-plasma jet impinging on an ungrounded glass surface. Guided streamers are generated with a DBD device driven by pulsed positive high voltages of 6 kV in amplitude, 224 3 ns in FWHM and 20 kHz in frequency. The argon flow rate is varied between 200 and 600 sccm. The glass plate is placed at 5 mm away from the reactor's nozzle and perpendicular to the streamers propagation. At these conditions, a diffuse stable discharge is established after the passage of the streamers allowing the quantification of the Ar(1s 5 ) absolute density by means of a conventional TDLAS technique coupled with emission spectroscopy and ICCD imaging. The good reproducibility of the absorption signals is demonstrated. The experiments show the strong dependence of the maximum density 0.5 4 10 cm 13 3-´-() on the gas flow rate and the axial and transversal position. At 200 sccm, high maximum densities 2.4 10 cm 13 3
>´-() are obtained in a small area close to the plasma source, while with increasing flow rate this area expands towards the glass plate. In the transversal direction, density maxima are obtained in a small zone around the propagation axis of the streamers. Finally, a noticeable increase is measured on the Ar(1s 5 ) effective lifetime close to the glass surface by varying the flow rate from 200 to 600 sccm. In overall, the effective lifetime varies between ∼25 and ∼550 ns, depending on the gas flow rate and the values of z and y coordinates. The results obtained suggest that the present system can be implemented in various applications and particularly in what concerns the detection of weakly volatile organic compounds present in trace amounts on different surfaces.
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