Cascaded Cross Flow DBD-Adsorbent Technique for NOX Abatement in Diesel Engine Exhaust

Mohapatro, Sankarsan and Rajanikanth, BS (2010) Cascaded Cross Flow DBD-Adsorbent Technique for NOX Abatement in Diesel Engine Exhaust. In: IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation, 17 (5). pp. 1543-1550.

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Abstract

In this paper, a different type of cross flow dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor was designed and tested. Here the gas flow is perpendicular to the barrier discharge electrode. Discharge plasma was utilized to oxidize NO contained in the exhaust gas to NO2 and subsequent NO2 removal can be improved using an adsorbent system. A detailed study of DeNO(X) in a stationary diesel engine exhaust was carried out using pulsed electrical discharges/adsorbent processes. Activated alumina (Al2O3) and MS-13x were used as adsorbents at room temperature. The main emphasis is laid on the removal of NOX from the filtered diesel engine exhaust. In filtered exhaust environment, the cross flow reactor along with adsorbent exhibits a superior performance with regard to NOX removal when compared to that with axial flow of gas. In this paper we bring out a relative comparison of discharge plasma and plasma-adsorbent process at various gas flow rates, ranging from 2 l/min to 25 l/min. The discharge plasma-adsorbent assisted barrier discharge reactor has shown promising results in NOX removal at high flow rates.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	IEEE Transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation
Publisher:	IEEE
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Keywords:	Pulsed discharge; NOX removal; discharge plasma; non-thermal plasma; filtered exhaust; plasma-adsorbent
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Electrical Engineering
Date Deposited:	19 Nov 2010 10:43
Last Modified:	19 Nov 2010 10:43
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/33845

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