Plasma Technology - Under construction
This course is currently under construction!
Study time: 4-6h
Target audience: Students and professionals with a principle knowledge of the level of a bachelor student
Welcome video
Meet the teachers
Learning objectives
How to obtain your course certificate
Become familiar with the learning platform
Getting to know each other
Before really kicking off... What do you think a plasma is?
Introduction to plasma
Exercise: Is this plasma?
What is plasma?
Exercise: Put in the correct order
Exercise: Which 3 words would you use for the definition of a “plasma”?
Different types of plasmas
Exercise: Put the types of plasmas correctly on the graph
How to create gas discharge plasmas?
Exercise: Plasma applications
Broad application range
Exercise: Is this plasma used for CO₂ conversion?
Test your knowledge
Before really kicking off... What do you think makes plasma conversion different from normal thermal conversion?
Potential of plasma
Exercise: What are the advantages of plasma technology for CCU?
Why is it interesting?
Exercise: Why is it interesting?
Benchmarking with other technologies
Exercise: Reactant feed
Feedback on exercise: Reactant feed
Exercise: Formulate at least two advantages and disadvantages about CO₂ conversion with plasma.
Exercise: Advantages/disadvantages
Test your knowledge
Before really kicking off...How do we create different plasmas?
Different types of plasma
Exercise: What are the names of these reactors?
Test your knowledge
Before really kicking off... What do you think is more important for an industrial process?
Performance of plasma
Key performance indicators: conversion, energy efficiency, energy cost
Exercise: How are these key performance indicators correlated to each other?
Feedback: How are these performance indicators correlated to each other?
Exercise: key performance indicators
Exercise: What performance is already achieved?
Pure CO2 splitting
Dry reforming of methane (CO2 + CH4)
Other reactions with CO2
Test your knowledge
Before really kicking off... Why do you think it is interesting to combine a plasma with a catalyst?
Plasma Catalysis: Underlying mechanisms
Exercise: Which three words would you use to describe plasma catalysis?
Exercise: Mechanisms
Plasma catalysis: Examples
Exercise: Plasma Catalysis
Test your knowledge
Before realy kicking off... Which experimental techniques could be used to analyze the plasma and/or to analyze the gas exhaust?
Before diving into models... Which computational methods do you think could describe a plasma?
How to get a better insight in plasma for CCU
Hotspot: Plasma diagnostics
Exercise: Run your own 0D plasma chemistry model
Exercise: Plasma only vs plasma-catalyst model (not all zones have to be filled in)
Feedback: Plasma only vs plasma-catalyst model
Exercise:Plasma catalyst interaction
Exercise: computational fluid dynamics
Test your knowledge
Before really kicking off... How do you think could we improve the performance of plasma for CCU?
Vibrational induced dissociation
Exercise: Vibrational excitation
Thermal conversion: the role of quenching
Exercise: Role of quenching - Sort from highest to lowest energy efficiency
Reactor design improvements
Exercise: Insights in reactor design improvement
Discussion forum: Share your idea for an improved reactor design
Test your knowledge
Concluding video
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Annemie Bogaerts
Rani Vertongen