HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN DISPERSED MEDIA

PLASMA PYROLYTIC SYNTHESIS OF CARBON
NANOSTRUCTURES IN A MIXTURE OF NITROGEN
AND PROPANE-BUTANE

A. F. Bublievskii, A. A. Galinovskii, A. V. Gorbunov, 
S. A. Zhdanok, L. I. Sharakhovskii, and A. L. Mossé

UDC 531.4:533.9:536.45

The results of experimental investigation of the parameters 
of gaseous-phase synthesis of carbon nanoparticles in atmospheric-pressure 
arc reactors operating with mixtures of nitrogen and hydrocarbon gases 
have been given. It has been revealed that, under the conditions studied, 
arc plasma synthesis makes it possible to synthesize highly dispersed 
carbon products with a content of fullerene phases of up to 15 wt.% 
and nanotubes to 3-5 wt.%.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus; email: fsp@hmti.ac.by. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 2, pp. 3-9, March-April, 2006. Original 
article submitted May 5, 2005.