PRODUCTION OF HYDROGEN AND CARBON FROM NATURAL GAS OR METHANE USING BARRIER DISCHARGE NON-THERMAL PLASMA

摘要

Hydrogen and carbon are produced by decomposing natural gas or methane in a field of barrier discharge non-thermal plasma. The apparatus for carrying out this process has two concentric elongated electrodes, one internal and one external, and a dielectric barrier between them, so arranged that there is a suitable gap between the internal electrode and the barrier. A high voltage pulser is connected to the electrodes and, when powered, creates the barrier discharge non-thermal plasma in the gas passing through the gap, thus decomposition this gas into its components, namely hydrogen and carbon.