2.45 GHz microwave atmospheric plasma for UK Foresight Vehicle

Author

Wylie, S.R. ; Al-Shamma´a, A.I. ; Lucas, Jerome ; Stuart, R.A.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Electron., Liverpool Univ., UK

fYear

2002

fDate

26-30 May 2002

Firstpage

321

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. Atmospheric microwave plasma technology, which was previously developed by The University of Liverpool for material processing, has been used as part of the future missions for the UK Foresight Vehicle Link programme for reducing harmful exhaust emissions from petrol, LPG and diesel engines. The Microcat system works at 2.45 GHz, so a low-cost, mass-produced version could be developed using domestic microwave oven components. Unlike conventional catalysts, which have to reach a temperature of 350-400/spl deg/C to operate correctly, Microcat will begin working as soon as power is applied. The Microcat system is also tolerant of fuel contamination and does not restrict the flow of the exhaust gas.

Keywords

air pollution control; automobiles; catalysis; internal combustion engines; microwave heating; plasma applications; plasma chemistry; 2.45 GHz; LPG engines; Microcat system; UK Foresight Vehicle; atmospheric microwave plasma technology; catalysts; diesel engines; harmful exhaust emissions; low-cost mass-produced version; petrol engines; Electromagnetic heating; Laser beam cutting; Masers; Materials processing; Microwave ovens; Microwave theory and techniques; Plasma applications; Plasma materials processing; Plasma welding; Vehicles;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 2002. ICOPS 2002. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts. The 29th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Banff, Alberta, Canada

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7407-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2002.1030651

Filename

1030651