This book introduces the opportunities of plasma assisted combustion and chemical processing for low carbon energy conversion using renewable electricity. Covering the fundamentals of plasma physics and chemistry, the book details the mechanisms and technologies of plasma enhanced combustion, chemical process, and pollutant control.
Plasma Assisted Combustion and Chemical Processing introduces the opportunities of plasma assisted combustion and chemical processing for green energy conversion using renewable electricity.
Covering the fundamentals of plasma physics and chemistry, the book details the mechanisms and technologies of plasma enhanced combustion, chemical process, materials manufacturing and recycling, and pollutant control. Addressing future challenges and opportunities of plasma assisted combustion and electrified green manufacturing, the book covers the state of art methods of modeling and diagnostic tools to optimize the process design.
The book will benefit graduate students and researchers studying energy conversion and chemical engineering in this emergent field.
1. Introduction.
2. Low temperature plasma generation and recombination.
3. Energy exchange and chemical reactions in nonequilibrium regimes in chemically active plasmas.
4. Mechanisms of plasma-chemical reactions.
5. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Chemistry.
6. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Dynamics.
7. Plasma Assisted Combustion: Applications.
8. Electrified Non-Equilibrium Chemical Manufacturing.
9. Plasma Diagnostics.
Yiguang Ju is the Robert Porter Patterson Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, the Director of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Energy Earthshot Research Center (EERC) for plasmaenhanced hydrogen production, and the head of Electromanufacturing Science and Associated Faculty at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL). He received his B.S. in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University in 1986, and his Ph.D. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Tohoku University in 1994. Dr. Jus research interests include combustion, fuels, plasma, and electrified manufacturing. He has published more than 300 refereed journal articles. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is also an inaugural fellow of the Combustion Institute. He served as the chair of the US Section of the Combustion Institute and a board member of the Combustion Institute. He also served as an associate editor for Proceedings of Combustion Institute and AIAA Journal and a steering committee member of National Academies of Sciences Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences Research in Space of NASA. He received many honors including the NASA Directors Certificate of Appreciation award, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the International Prize of the Japanese Combustion Society, and the Alfred C. Egerton Gold Medal from the Combustion Institute. He is a cofounder of HiTNano Inc, Princeton NuEnergy Inc, PolymerX Inc, and USPlasma Inc. He is also the founding President of Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE).
Andrey Starikovskiy is a senior research specialist in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D in Mechanics of Gases and Plasma from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1991 and his Doctor of Science degree in Physics and Chemistry of Plasma, Thermophysics and Molecular Physics from the Institute for High-Temperature Studies, Russian Academy of Science in 2000. Dr. Starikovskiys research interests include combustion, fuels, plasma, molecular energy transfer processes, electron and ion kinetics, plasma aerodynamics, and supersonic and hypersonic flows. He has published more than 250 refereed papers and 8 book chapters. He is the author of six patents. He is an Editor-in-Chief for Plasma journal. He is also a member of the editorial board for the journals Energies and Plasma Research Express. Dr. Starikovskiy is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is also a member of AIAA Plasmadynamics and Lasers Technical Committee.
