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Ammonia Decomposition Using Electron Beam

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This study was carried out to determine the decomposition characteristics of ammonia using an electron beam (EB). Factors influencing these decomposition characteristics such as background gases (air, N2, O2, and He), initial ammonia concentration (50–150 ppm), relative humidity (0 or 90 %), and absorbed dose (1–15 kGy) were investigated. In the results of removal characteristics by different background gases, the decomposition efficiency of ammonia was lower (approximately 45 % at 5 kGy) when He was used as a background gas compared to the efficiencies when other background gases were selected. Ammonia removal efficiencies, when initial concentrations were 50 and 150 ppm, were 95 and 75 %, respectively, at 15 kGy. Ozone generation by EB irradiation increased from 2.5 kGy and reached a maximum of 45 ppm when 5 kGy of the absorbed dose was irradiated. However, ozone generation started to decrease when the absorbed dose exceeded 5 kGy and decreased to 0.27 ppm at 15 kGy.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (2012R1A6A3A03039668). This work was also supported by the Hi-Seoul Science (Humanities) Fellowship from the Seoul Scholarship Foundation and the Korean Ministry of Environment as part of “The Eco-Technopia 21 Project”.

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    Youn-Suk Son

  2. Department of Environmental Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul, 143-701, Republic of Korea

    Youn-Suk Son, Ki-Hyung Kim & Jo-Chun Kim

  3. Chemical Research Division, Environmental Health Research Department, National Institute of Environmental Research, Incheon, 404-708, Republic of Korea

    Ki-Joon Kim

  4. Department of Advanced Technology Fusion, Konkuk University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Jo-Chun Kim

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Son, YS., Kim, KH., Kim, KJ. et al. Ammonia Decomposition Using Electron Beam. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 33, 617–629 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-013-9444-x

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