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Low-temperature ignition of methane-air mixtures under the action of nonequilibrium plasma

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A plasma-chemical kinetic mechanism of the low-temperature (600 < T < 1000 K) oxidation/combustion of methane under conditions of nonequilibrium plasma over a wide pressure range (P = 0.1−100 atm) is developed and verified. The mechanism is comprised of three types of elementary processes: chemical reaction of neutral atoms and molecules, primary plasma-chemical processes involving electrons, and secondary plasma-chemical processes involving atomic and molecular ions and excited species. Application of the developed mechanism to describing the plasma-assisted oxidation of methane shows that this mechanism can describe the experimental results qualitatively and quantitatively.

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  1. Russian Scientific Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia

    M. A. Deminskii, M. I. Strelkova & B. V. Potapkin

  2. OOO Kintech Lab, Moscow, Russia

    M. A. Deminskii, S. Ya. Umanskii, A. E. Baranov & B. V. Potapkin

  3. National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”, Moscow, Russia

    I. V. Chernysheva

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    S. Ya. Umanskii

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Original Russian Text © M.A. Deminskii, I.V. Chernysheva, S.Ya. Umanskii, M.I. Strelkova, A.E. Baranov, I.V. Kochetov, A.P. Napartovich, T. Sommerer, S. Saddoughi, J. Herbon, B.V. Potapkin, 2013, published in Khimicheskaya Fizika, 2013, Vol. 32, No. 7, pp. 24–38.

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Deminskii, M.A., Chernysheva, I.V., Umanskii, S.Y. et al. Low-temperature ignition of methane-air mixtures under the action of nonequilibrium plasma. Russ. J. Phys. Chem. B 7, 410–423 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793113040040

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