DECOMPOSITION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS IN A PLASMA-CATALYTIC REACTOR

S. A. Zhdanok, S. V. Gorbatov, A. A. Mikhailov, K. F. Plevako, 
F. V. Plevako, E. N. Prikhod'ko, and S. V. Shushkov

UDC 537.523+66.097.3 (533.9+547)

A combined plasma-catalytic reactor was used for purification 
of air. The air was circulated through a grained catalyst, in which 
a pulsed-discharge plasma was excited at one time at atmospheric pressure. 
Acetone, ethyl lactate, and propylene glycol monomethylethyl acetate 
were used as impurities. The dry air and saturated humid air were 
purified. Results on the decomposition of the impurities with the 
use of a heated catalyst and a plasma in an inert filling material 
were also obtained. The combined reactor showed points in its favor 
for the purification conditions realized at a relatively small specific 
power consumption of 100 J/liter.

Keywords: volatile organic compound, plasma-catalytic reactor, 
pulsed barrier discharge, atmospheric-pressure plasma, degree 
of decomposition of impurities. 

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. 82, 
No. 2, pp. 358-363, March-April, 2009. Original article submitted 
March 20, 2008.