The treatment of spent oils and organic solvents from the nuclear industry which may be considered as low level radioactive waste (LLW) represents an unsolved challenge in the clean-up of nuclear waste. One of the common spent-oils found in nuclear waste is odourless kerosene. In this work, non-thermal atmospheric plasma has been generated in an AC gliding arc discharge reactor, to treat odourless kerosene in the vapour phase, as understanding the gas chemistry would be the key for future liquid treatment. The effect of different carrier gas composition on the odourless kerosene destruction has been investigated using Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) for quantitative and qualitative analysis.
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