Plasma Assisted Combustion and Chemical Processing

Auteur

Yiguang Ju is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and the Director of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for plasma enhanced hydrogen production, and the head of Electromanufacturing Science and Associated Faculty at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He received his B.S. in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994. Dr. Ju's research interests include combustion, fuels, plasma, and electrified manufacturing. He has published more than 300 refereed journal articles. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and an inaugural fellow of the Combustion Institute. He served as chair of the US sections of the combustion institute and a board member the combustion institute. He also served as an Associate Editor for Proceedings of Combustion Institute and AIAA Journal and a steering committee member of National Academies of Sciences Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space of NASA. He has received numerous awards including the Distinguished Paper Award from the International Symposium on Combustion, the NASA Director's Certificate of Appreciation award, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the International Prize of the Japanese Combustion Society, and the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute. He is a co-founder of HiTNano Inc, Princeton NuEnergy Inc, Polymer-X Inc, and USPlasma Inc, and the founding President of the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE).

Andrey Starikovskiy is the Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D in Mechanics of Gases and Plasma from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1991 and his Doctor of Science degree in Physics and Chemistry of Plasma, Thermophysics and Molecular Physics from Institute for High-Temperature Studies, Russian Academy of Science in 2000. Dr. Starikovskiy's research interests include combustion, fuels, plasma, molecular energy transfer processes, electron and ion kinetics, plasma aerodynamics, supersonic and hypersonic flows. He has published more than 250 refereed papers and 8 book chapters. He is an author of 6 patents. Dr. Starikovskiy is editor-in-chief for Plasma journal, member of editorial board for Energies, and Plasma Research Express journals. He served as a guest editor for special issues for Plasma Sources Science and Technology and Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society A journals. Dr. Starikovskiy is an associate of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He also is a member of AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers technical committee.

Texte du rabat

This book introduces the opportunities of plasma assisted combustion and chemical processing for low carbon energy conversion using renewable electricity. Covering the fundamentals of plasma physics and chemistry, the book details the mechanisms and technologies of plasma enhanced combustion, chemical process, and pollutant control.

Contenu

1. Introduction. 2. Low temperature plasma generation and recombination. 3. Energy exchange and chemical reactions in nonequilibrium regimes in chemically active plasmas. 4. Mechanisms of plasma-chemical reactions. 5. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Chemistry. 6. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Dynamics. 7. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Applications. 8. Electrified Non-Equilibrium Chemical Manufacturing. 9. Plasma Diagnostics.