A. M. Anpilov, É. M. Barkhudarov, N. K. Berezhetskaya, S. I. Gritsinin, A. M. Davydov, Yu. N. Kozlov, I. A. Kossyi, M. A. Misakyan, S. M. Temchin, V. G. Ral'chenko, P. Gushchin, E. V. Ivanov, “Methane conversion in a multielectrode slipping surface discharge in the two-phase water-gas medium”, Zhurnal Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, 2011, Volume 81, Issue 11,Pages <nobr>48

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Gas Discharges, Plasmas

Methane conversion in a multielectrode slipping surface discharge in the two-phase water-gas medium

A. M. Anpilov^a, É. M. Barkhudarov^a, N. K. Berezhetskaya^a, S. I. Gritsinin^a, A. M. Davydov^a, Yu. N. Kozlov^b, I. A. Kossyi^a, M. A. Misakyan^a, S. M. Temchin^a, V. G. Ral'chenko^a, P. Gushchin^c, E. V. Ivanov^c

^a Prokhorov General Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^b N. N. Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^c Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Abstract: The multielectrode slipping surface discharge in a two-phase water-gas (methane) medium is studied experimentally as a plasma-chemical converter of methane into various hydrocarbons, carbon, and hydrogen. The energy value of methane decomposition is on the order of 5 eV/molecule, which is close to record-high values attained in high-pressure discharges. The degree of conversion of methane is determined and the possibility of its substantial increase is considered.

Received: 01.03.2011