Discharge Plasma Treatment for ${NO}_x$ Reduction from Diesel Engine Exhaust: A Laboratory Investigation

Rajanikanth, BS and Srinivasan, AD and Ravi, V (2005) Discharge Plasma Treatment for ${NO}_x$ Reduction from Diesel Engine Exhaust: A Laboratory Investigation. In: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 12 (1). pp. 72-80.

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Abstract

A detailed study on the removal of oxides of nitrogen $({NO}_x)$ with and without the presence of carbonaceous soot in a stationary diesel engine exhaust was carried out using pulsed electrical discharges/catalyst/adsorbent processes. The processes were separately studied first and then the cascaded processes namely plasma-catalyst and plasma-adsorbent were examined. To investigate the effect of carbonaceous soot on the plasma treatment process, the filtered and unfiltered exhaust was treated by plasma separately. In the cascaded plasma-catalyst process, the plasma treating filtered exhaust was cascaded with a reduction catalyst $V_2O_3$/$TiO_2$ using ammonia as reducing agent and in the cascaded plasma-adsorbent process, the plasma treating unfiltered (raw) exhaust was cascaded with adsorbents (MS-13X/Activated alumina/Activated charcoal). The enhanced $({NO}_x)$ removal efficiency of plasma process in the presence of soot is identified, possible pathways are summarized and the results of the cascaded processes are discussed in detail.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	pulsed discharges;NOx removal;discharge plasma;non-thermal plasma;engine emission;raw exhaust;plasma-catalyst;plasma-adsorbent;particulate treatment;stationary emission source
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > High Voltage Engineering (merged with EE)
Date Deposited:	03 Aug 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:19
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/3447

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