Abstract
This project studies plasma-based CO2 conversion in an industrial reactor (of D-CRBN, spinoff company of PLASMANT) and its subsequent separation towards CO production. The latter can be used by industry as a building block. The key research questions are:
• How to boost reactor performance in an upscaled reactor, i.e., D-CRBN pilot with several reactors in parallel (in terms of conversion and energy efficiency), as compared to the lab scale (single) reactor of PLASMANT?
• How do the various reactors in parallel influence each other? We need experimental results + deeper insights via Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations.
• Which adsorbents show the highest purity of CO in the outlet stream?
• Which technology is the most suitable to integrate with the plasma reactors: pressure swing adsorption (PSA) or temperature swing adsorption (TSA), keeping in mind that the latter can increase the overall energy efficiency by taking benefit of the hot gas flowing out of the plasma reactor?
• How to integrate both parts into one industrial setup? We will need to create an engineering plan to construct such a system.
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