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Removal of sulfur dioxide from air using a packed-bed dbd plasma reactor (pbr) and in-plasma catalysis (ipc) hybrid system

• Authors Details :  
• Niloofar Damyar,  
• Ali Khavanin,  
• Ahmad Jonidi Jafari,  
• Hassan Asilian-mahabadi,  
• Ramazan Mirzaei,  
• Hamid Ghomi,  
• Seyyed Mohammad Mousavi

Journal title : Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Publisher : Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Online ISSN : 1614-7499

Page Number : 42821-42836

Journal volume : 28

Journal issue : 31

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Sulfur dioxide, a noxious air pollutant, can cause health and environmental effects, and its emissions should be controlled. Nonthermal plasma is one of the most effective technologies in this area. This study evaluated the efficiency of a packed-bed plasma reactor (PBR) and in-plasma catalysis (IPC) in SO2 removal process which were finally optimized and modeled by the use of the central composite design (CCD) approach. In this study, SO2 was diluted in zero air, and the NiCeMgAl catalyst was selected as the catalyst part of the IPC. The effect of three main factors and their interaction were studied. ANOVA results revealed that the best models for SO2 removal efficiency and energy yielding were the reduced cubic models. According to the results, both PBR and IPC reactors were significantly energy efficient compared with the nonpacked plasma reactor and had high SO2 removal efficiency which was at least twice larger than that of the nonpacked one. Based on the results, the efficiency of IPC was better than in PBR, but its performance decreased over time. However, the PBR had relatively high SO2 removal efficiency and energy efficiency compared to the nonpacked reactor, and its performance remained constant over the studied time. In optimization, the maximum SO2 removal efficiency and energy efficiency were 80.69% and 1.04 gr/kWh, respectively (at 1250 ppm, 2.5 L/min, and 18 kV as the optimum condition) obtained by the IPC system which were 1.5 and 1.24 times greater than PBR, respectively. Finally, the model’s predictions showed good agreement with the experiments.

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-13173-5

Article Subject Details

• Engineering
• Health sciences
• Mulltidisciplinary health science
• Public health

Article Keywords Details

• In-plasma catalysis
• Packed-bedDBD plasma
• Response surfacemethodology
• Sulfur dioxide

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