Meta-analysis of CO<inf>2</inf> conversion, energy efficiency, and other performance data of plasma-catalysis reactors with the open access PIONEER database

Antoine Salden*, Maik Budde, Carolina A. Garcia-Soto, Omar Biondo, Jairo Barauna, Marzia Faedda, Beatrice Musig, Chloé Fromentin, Minh Nguyen-Quang, Harry Philpott, Golshid Hasrack, Domenico Aceto, Yuxiang Cai, Federico Azzolina Jury, Annemie Bogaerts, Patrick Da Costa, Richard Engeln, María Elena Gálvez, Timo Gans, Tomas GarciaVasco Guerra, Carlos Henriques, Monika Motak, Maria Victoria Navarro, Vasile I. Parvulescu, Gerard Van Rooij, Bogdan Samojeden, Ana Sobota, Paolo Tosi, Xin Tu, Olivier Guaitella

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

This paper brings the comparison of performances of CO2 conversion by plasma and plasma-assisted catalysis based on the data collected from literature in this field, organised in an open access online database. This tool is open to all users to carry out their own analyses, but also to contributors who wish to add their data to the database in order to improve the relevance of the comparisons made, and ultimately to improve the efficiency of CO2 conversion by plasma-catalysis. The creation of this database and database user interface is motivated by the fact that plasma-catalysis is a fast-growing field for all CO2 conversion processes, be it methanation, dry reforming of methane, methanolisation, or others. As a result of this rapid increase, there is a need for a set of standard procedures to rigorously compare performances of different systems. However, this is currently not possible because the fundamental mechanisms of plasma-catalysis are still too poorly understood to define these standard procedures. Fortunately however, the accumulated data within the CO2 plasma-catalysis community has become large enough to warrant so-called “big data” studies more familiar in the fields of medicine and the social sciences. To enable comparisons between multiple data sets and make future research more effective, this work proposes the first database on CO2 conversion performances by plasma-catalysis open to the whole community. This database has been initiated in the framework of a H2020 European project and is called the “PIONEER DataBase”. The database gathers a large amount of CO2 conversion performance data such as conversion rate, energy efficiency, and selectivity for numerous plasma sources coupled with or without a catalyst. Each data set is associated with metadata describing the gas mixture, the plasma source, the nature of the catalyst, and the form of coupling with the plasma. Beyond the database itself, a data extraction tool with direct visualisation features or advanced filtering functionalities has been developed and is available online to the public. The simple and fast visualisation of the state of the art puts new results into context, identifies literal gaps in data, and consequently points towards promising research routes. More advanced data extraction illustrates the impact that the database can have in the understanding of plasma-catalyst coupling. Lessons learned from the review of a large amount of literature during the setup of the database lead to best practice advice to increase comparability between future CO2 plasma-catalytic studies. Finally, the community is strongly encouraged to contribute to the database not only to increase the visibility of their data but also the relevance of the comparisons allowed by this tool.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)318-342
Number of pages25
JournalJournal of Energy Chemistry
Volume86
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Nov 2023

Keywords

  • Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU)
  • CO conversion 2
  • Dielectric barrier discharge
  • Dry reforming of methane
  • Energy efficiency
  • Methanation
  • Open-access database on plasma-catalysis experiment
  • Packed bed reactor
  • Plasma-catalysis
  • Specific energy input

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