Plasma for a clean and carbon-neutral world

Various carbon-neutral technologies are being introduced to prevent global warming, which is becoming more and more serious. CO2 emissions are mostly from the production and use of energy, and in most developed countries, CO2 emissions in industrial section account for the largest share. In the process of energy production, especially in the process of creating ‘heat’, CO2 is generated due to the combustion of diverse fossil fuel.

From this point of view, the role of plasma is expanding for carbon neutrality. Utilization of plasma produced using electric energy has been limited in that it was based on expensive electric energy, but this limitation disappeared as the use of renewable energy for carbon neutrality expanded because electricity is the final product of all of the renewable energy sources.

Plasma can be the most effective means to produce 'heat' instead of the combustion process. Higher temperature conditions can be made faster than conventional combustion processes or electrothermal heating devices, and this characteristic will be usefully utilized in various industries.

In particular, one of the biggest differences between ordinary heating devices and plasma is that rapid heating and rapid cooling are possible. It can be used to create new pathways for various chemical processes, either through plasma-only reactions or plasma-catalyzed reactions. In this presentation, we would like to introduce a representative example of an electrochemical reaction using plasma and its characteristics