Influence of Reduced Electric Field (E/N) on Plasma-Assisted Low-Temperature Oxidation

This paper presents a study on the effect of a reduced electric field (E/N) on a premixed methane–air mixture oxidation at low temperature (less than 600 K). A coaxial reactor designed and built for the experiments has the flexibility to be configured for various discharge gaps and pressure conditions such that the discharge can be operated at various E/N. Volumetric dielectric barrier discharge plasma was established using 30 kV nanosecond...