Unfiltered Diesel Engine Exhaust Treatment by Discharge Plasma: Effect of Soot Oxidation

Rajanikanth, BS and Das, Subhankar and Srinivasan, AD (2004) Unfiltered Diesel Engine Exhaust Treatment by Discharge Plasma: Effect of Soot Oxidation. In: Plasma Science & Technology, 6 (5). pp. 2475-2480.

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Abstract

A cascaded system of electrical discharges (non-thermal plasma), catalyst and adsorption process was investigated for the removal of nitrogen oxides $(NO_x)$ and CO from a diesel engine raw exhaust. The three processes were sep. studied first, and then the cascaded processes, namely plasma-catalyst and plasma-adsorbent, were investigated. In this paper main emphasis was laid on the effect of carbonaceous soot oxidn. on the plasma treatment process. While the cascaded plasma-catalyst process exhibits a higher CO removal, the cascaded plasma-adsorbent process exhibits a higher NOx removal. The exptseriments were conducted under no-load. The plasma and adsorbent reactors were kept at room temperature throughout the experiment while the catalyst reactor was kept at $200^oC/300^oC$.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Plasma Science & Technology
Publisher:	Institute of Physics (IOP)
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Institute of Physics (IOP).
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > High Voltage Engineering (merged with EE)
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/12352

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