Plasma technology as a potential breakthrough technology for the economic conversion of CO₂ into value-added chemicals and fuels.

This paper discusses our recent results on plasma-based CO₂ conversion, obtained by a combination of experiments and modeling, for a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), a microwave plasma and a packed bed DBD reactor. The results illustrate that plasma technology is quite promising for CO₂ conversion, but more research is needed to better understand the underlying mechanisms and to further improve the capabilities.

For the first time an extensive experimental and computational study was performed on the effect of N ₂ on CO ₂ splitting in a dielectric barrier discharge plasma.