Surface Combustion of Hydrogen and Other Light Gaseous Fuels in the Presence of an Electrostatic Field and Corona Discharge

摘要

Major achievements of the study are (1) the demonstration that fluid mechanic effects produced by corona discharge in an annular flow reactor can significantly alter mass transfer to a catalytically active outer cylinder and (2) the measurement of the augmentation of mass transfer coefficients and overall first order rate constants under corona discharge as a function of discharge current, flow rate and inlet mole fraction of fuel. Experiments were done for hydrogen, ethane and propane in air at a constant temperature on platinized alumina.