Research Visit to Professor S. Futumura, NIAIST, Ibaraki, Japan
Reference Number
EP/D037018/1
Title
Research Visit to Professor S. Futumura, NIAIST, Ibaraki, Japan
Status
Completed
Energy Categories
Not Energy Related
Energy Efficiency(Industry)
Energy Efficiency(Industry)
Research Types
Basic and strategic applied research
Science and Technology Fields
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Chemistry)
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation
Not Cross-cutting
Principal Investigator
Professor JC Whitehead
Chemistry
University of Manchester
Chemistry
University of Manchester
Award Type
Standard
Funding Source
EPSRC
Start Date
10 October 2005
End Date
09 October 2006
Duration
12 months
Total Grant Value
£2,933
Industrial Sectors
Catalysis & surfaces
Region
North West
Programme
Engineering science: flow -- Process Environment and Sustainability
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Objectives
Abstract
By combining the technologies of using electrical discharges in gases to create a plasma with the established use of catalysts for destroying pollutants, we can develop a new technology for the environmental clean-up of waste gas streams. Both technologies have been applied separately to the problem of destroying a wide range of hazardous air pollutants but the synergistic effect of combining the two technologies offers unique advantages in terms of lower operating temperatures and selective production of end-products that neither method offers on its own. In this project, we will investigate how the chemistry and choice of catalysts and the nature of the electrical input to the discharge affects the efficiency of the processing. The aim is to develop a sustainable and energy efficient process that is viable and competitive with already established technologies without some of their inherent disadvantages
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