CATALYTIC DECOMPOSITION OF FREONS IN MICROWAVE-DISCHARGE AFTERGLOW

The kinetics of charged and excited particles and molecular species in the afterglow of a pulse-repetitive microwave discharge was simulated ; humid air admired with CCl4 freon was used. The plasma-catalytic cyc le involving electron and negative-ion processes was considered. The i nfluence of the cycle on freon molecule decomposition was investigated ; its dependence on the number of pulses, the initial freon concentrat ion, and the normalized electric field was studied. It was shown that the catalytic effect was liable to reduce the energy expense of the fr eon molecule decomposition by one-half.