Plasma-driven catalyst process for the decomposition of VOCs

This paper describes the decomposition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), such as benzene, formic acid, oxylene, m-xylene, p-xylene, and toluene, using plasma-driven catalyst (PDC) reactor. The behaviors of different VOCs were compared in terms of decomposition efficiency, carbon balance, reaction kinetics, and CO/sub 2/ selectivity. In contrast to the conventional reactors, the decomposition of VOCs using the PDC reactor showed no correlation with the ionization potential of VOCs. In the cases of aromatic compounds, the selectivities of CO/sub 2/ were found to be constant regardless of the specific input energy and the type of VOCs and specific input energy.