AVS 60th International Symposium and Exhibition
    Energy Frontiers Focus Topic Tuesday Sessions
       Session EN+AS+PS-TuA

Invited Paper EN+AS+PS-TuA9
Transient Plasma for Green Technologies: Reduced Emissions, Greenhouse Gas Reduction, and Improved Combustion Efficiencies

Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 4:40 pm, Room 101 A

Session: Water Splitting and Carbon Dioxide Conversion
Presenter: M. Gundersen, University of Southern California
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Transient plasma, that is, plasma during a formative, short time period prior to equilibration of a plasma electron energy distribution, is studied for applications to the fundamental improvement of fuel-burning engine efficiency in fuel-air mixtures, and in exhaust streams. This transient plasma requires operation with short (<100ns) pulsed high voltage, and typically requires only small pulse energy (10mJ to <1J). Transient plasma has been demonstrated shows promise for improving engine efficiency through improved combustion efficiency, and has been demonstrated to be efficient for NOx conversion. Results for studies of engine types including internal combustion engines, pulse detonation engines, will be discussed, and ideas for future directions will be presented. This work has been supported by the AFOSR, ARO, and the TCC Corp.