Proposal OverviewBackground1-4

Greenhouse effect occurs when gas molecules act as a layer that absorbs infrared radiation and prevents it from exiting the Earth’s atmosphere.Major greenhouse gases include:

• Water Vapor• Carbon dioxide• Methane• Nitrous Oxide

Project Goals

• Analyze tunable properties in syngas production

with methane as the main chemical feed stock.

• Study syngas production with respect to

reaction rate and thermodynamic mechanisms.

• Propose a favorable catalyst configuration with

respect to production rate via a dielectric

barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor.

Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) plasma reactor3

General ReactionCH4 + CO2 2CO + 2H2

ApproachMethod of study and preliminary results

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