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Journal of CO2 Utilization

Reuse of greenhouse gases is one of the promising approaches towards controlling global warming to some extent. As a part of that, an attempt has been made to utilize CO2 gas as one of the primary gases to form a thermal plasma jet for material processing. For that purpose, a unique direct current (DC) non-transferred arc thermal plasma torch was designed and its current-voltage characteristics and electro-thermal efficiency with different discharge currents and gas compositions were studied. The torch is made of rod type cathode and a nozzle type anode, which can produce a stable thermal plasma jet under different gas compositions. CH4 was used as a secondary mixing gas in an Ar-CO2 gas composition to produce a carbon-rich thermal plasma with high electro-thermal efficiency. The maximum electro-thermal efficiency of 73 % were reached while the torch operated at 100 A current with 6 slpm of CH4 flow along with 15 and 20 slpm of Ar and CO2 gas flow, respectively. Torch efficiency decreased to 12 % with increas...

Study on CO2 based thermal plasma torch and its effective utilization for material processing in atmospheric pressure