THEME: "Stretching the Horizons of Expertise in Catalysis and Chemical Engineering"
Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such as CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, N2 fixation for the synthesis of NH3 or NOx, and CH4 conversion into higher hydrocarbons or oxygenates .In addition, it is widely used for air pollution control and waste gas treatment. Catalyst is needed to improve the selectivity towards the production of targeted compounds.
Plasma allows thermodynamically difficult reactions to proceed at an ambient pressure and temperature because the gas molecules are activated by energetic electrons created in the plasma.