Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust

Major air pollution problem contributed by Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) has a noxious effect on human health and environment. Implementation of stringent regulation of NOx emission has greatly increased interest in the development of new effective pollution control technology. Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP) util...

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Main Author:	Roslan, Nurul Ain
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48923/25/NurulAinRoslanMFKE2014.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.489232017-08-12T00:21:28Z Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust 2014-05 Roslan, Nurul Ain TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering Major air pollution problem contributed by Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) has a noxious effect on human health and environment. Implementation of stringent regulation of NOx emission has greatly increased interest in the development of new effective pollution control technology. Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP) utilizing electrical discharge has been recognized as a promising technology for the removal of pollutant gases from diesel engine exhaust. In this research, cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor was designed to investigate the removal of NOx from diesel engine exhaust. A simulation study consists of flow analysis of cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor was conducted using Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to evaluate the performance of the discharge plasma chamber on the removal of NOx from diesel engine exhaust together with engine performance. Several parameters including gap spacing, chamber length and number of stages were varied to investigate their effects on system performance. The results from simulation study show that the cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor with three stages of treatment process provides more effective performance on the removal of NOx pollutant from diesel engine exhaust without affecting engine performance. This is in line with the initial assumption that three stages cascaded chamber will effectively remove the NOx from diesel engine exhaust. A mathematical modelling by using dimensional analysis has been developed that is appropriate in investigating the relation of the electrical and physical parameters on the removal of NOx concentration from diesel engine exhaust. To verify the viability of the analysis, results obtained from the dimensional analysis were compared with the experimental results reported in previous research. These predictions calculation demonstrates a reasonable agreement with the experimental data. 2014-05 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48923/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48923/25/NurulAinRoslanMFKE2014.pdf application/pdf en public masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering Faculty of Electrical Engineering
institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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language	English
topic	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering
spellingShingle	TK Electrical engineering Electronics Nuclear engineering Roslan, Nurul Ain Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
description	Major air pollution problem contributed by Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) has a noxious effect on human health and environment. Implementation of stringent regulation of NOx emission has greatly increased interest in the development of new effective pollution control technology. Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP) utilizing electrical discharge has been recognized as a promising technology for the removal of pollutant gases from diesel engine exhaust. In this research, cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor was designed to investigate the removal of NOx from diesel engine exhaust. A simulation study consists of flow analysis of cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor was conducted using Commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to evaluate the performance of the discharge plasma chamber on the removal of NOx from diesel engine exhaust together with engine performance. Several parameters including gap spacing, chamber length and number of stages were varied to investigate their effects on system performance. The results from simulation study show that the cascaded pulsed streamer discharge plasma reactor with three stages of treatment process provides more effective performance on the removal of NOx pollutant from diesel engine exhaust without affecting engine performance. This is in line with the initial assumption that three stages cascaded chamber will effectively remove the NOx from diesel engine exhaust. A mathematical modelling by using dimensional analysis has been developed that is appropriate in investigating the relation of the electrical and physical parameters on the removal of NOx concentration from diesel engine exhaust. To verify the viability of the analysis, results obtained from the dimensional analysis were compared with the experimental results reported in previous research. These predictions calculation demonstrates a reasonable agreement with the experimental data.
format	Thesis
qualification_level	Master's degree
author	Roslan, Nurul Ain
author_facet	Roslan, Nurul Ain
author_sort	Roslan, Nurul Ain
title	Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
title_short	Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
title_full	Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
title_fullStr	Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
title_full_unstemmed	Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
title_sort	pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust
granting_institution	Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering
granting_department	Faculty of Electrical Engineering
publishDate	2014
url	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/48923/25/NurulAinRoslanMFKE2014.pdf
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Pulsed streamer discharge chamber to reduce nitrogen oxides from diesel engine exhaust

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