Thermal tar cracking enhanced by cold plasma – A study of naphthalene as tar surrogate

Gasification has been proposed as a good solution for recovering energy from waste and biomass in the form of syngas. However, the presence of tar limits syngas applications. Tar model molecules have been removed by cold plasmas up to 400 °C, but to avoid syngas cooling tar removal above 600 °C is required. To investigate tar removal by cold plasma at higher temperatures, two sets of experiments were done, one to identify tar composition from...