Plasma technologies for reducing CO2 emissions from combustion exhaust with toxic admixtures to utilisable products

The method reported here provides a contribution to CO2 and combustion exha ust utilisation. A multifunctional system for gas removal was tested on var ious sources of exhaust (internal combustion engine, brown coal boiler, bit uminous pulverised coal boiler, gas boiler, glass oven, VOC sources) in ful l-scale or by-pass gas flow volumes. A spontaneously-pulsing, direct-current electric discharge operating in a c orona geometry was used. The discharge has strongly shining channels migrat ing quickly along the stressed electrode. The synergetic effect of electric discharge and heterogeneous catalysis on the organometallic part of the pr oduct formed on the non-stressed electrode was responsible for the specific character of the products. The final product of the process is a powder wi th a fractal structure on the microscopic level with low specific mass and insoluble in water. The main component (95%) of the solid product is an amo rphous condensate of amino acids with about 5% of organometallic compound w ith catalytic properties. The product was analysed using IR absorption spec trometry, microscopic photography, HPLC and thermogravimetry. The following amino acids were observed in the final product: alanine, serine, glycine, aspartic acid, lysine, arginine, methionine, histidine.