Energy characteristics of the process of air scrubbing from hydrocarbon contaminants in a barrier-discharge reactor

The electrical and chemical characteristics of the air scrubbing, with the use of a barrier discharge, from impurities of xylene being a typical organic contaminant have been investigated. Based on the interrelation between the electrical and chemical characteristics, an approach to the optimization of the cleaning process has been proposed that allows a severalfold reduction of the energy input.