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Lookup NU author(s): Faisal Saleem, Aumber Abbas, Abdul Rehman, Dr Kui Zhang, Professor Adam Harvey
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© 2022. In this work, the decomposition of benzene was studied with CH4 using a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor. The experimental conditions such as input power, residence time, and concentration were varied to investigate the decomposition of benzene. The decomposition of benzene increased with increasing input power and residence time. The highest decomposition of benzene at 40 W and 2.86 s was 82.9%. The major gaseous products were H2 and lower hydrocarbons (LHC) and the yield of these products also increases with input power and residence time. The percentage yield of H2 increases from 0.65 to 5.18% by increasing input power from 5 to 40 W at 2.86 s. Similarly, the yield of LHC increases from 0.78 to 8.86% for benzene under the same reaction conditions. Hence, input power promoted the decomposition of tar compounds and enhanced the yield of gaseous products. However, at higher concentrations of the tar compound, decomposition efficiency and product yield decreased. The modified first-order kinetic model was used for the decomposition of tar model compound and methane carrier gas.
Author(s): Saleem F, Abbas A, Rehman A, Khoja AH, Naqvi SR, Arshad MY, Zhang K, Harvey A
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Energy Institute
Year: 2022
Volume: 102
Pages: 190-195
Print publication date: 01/06/2022
Online publication date: 21/03/2022
Acceptance date: 17/03/2022
Date deposited: 31/05/2022
ISSN (print): 1743-9671
ISSN (electronic): 1746-0220
Publisher: Elsevier BV
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joei.2022.03.009
DOI: 10.1016/j.joei.2022.03.009
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/a91s-by92
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