PRODUCTION OF COMMERCIAL HYDROGEN AND ACETYLENE 
FROM PROPANE-BUTANE AND LIQUID HYDROCARBONS 
IN AN ELECTRIC-ARC PLASMA REACTOR

A. L. Mossé, A. V. Gorbunov, A. A. Galinovskii,
V. V. Savchin, and A. V. Lozhechkin

UDC 533.9:536.45

A fundamentally new structure of a plasma reactor for 
production of acetylene and commercial hydrogen from gaseous and liquid 
hydrocarbons has been developed and proposed. In this device, the 
plasma jet of synthesis gas is submerged in the volume of liquid hydrocarbons 
to form a gas volume in which the second stage of pyrolysis reactions 
is realized. Experimental investigations have been carried out.

A. V. Luikov Heat and Mass Transfer Institute, National 
Academy of Sciences of Belarus, 15 P. Brovka Str., Minsk, 220072, 
Belarus. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 81, 
No. 4, pp. 630-636, July-August, 2008. Original article submitted 
April 18, 2007.