Direct decomposition of anesthetic gas by atmospheric multi-gas inductively coupled plasma

Author

Goto, Yu ; Sasaki, Ryoichi ; Hotta, Eiki ; Okino, Akitoshi ; Miyahara, Hidekazu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Energy Sci., Tokyo Tech., Yokohama

fYear

2008

fDate

15-19 June 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This paper investigates the application of atmospheric thermal plasma for decomposition of anesthesia gas. With the multi-gas inductively coupled plasma (ICP) source, atmospheric plasma by anesthesia gas, which consists of N₂O, O₂ and buffer air, can be directly generated. Not only pyrolysis but radicals, excited species or ultraviolet radiation will be contributed to the reactions so higher decomposition efficiency will be expected. Experimental results of decomposition rate, energy efficiency and by-products are reported.

Keywords

plasma applications; plasma chemistry; plasma sources; pyrolysis; anesthesia gas; atmospheric thermal plasma; decomposition; energy efficiency; excited species; multi-gas inductively coupled plasma source; pyrolysis; radicals; ultraviolet radiation; Anesthesia; Anesthetic drugs; Argon; Costs; Helium; Laboratories; Nuclear and plasma sciences; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties; Plasma sources;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 2008. ICOPS 2008. IEEE 35th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Karlsruhe

ISSN

0730-9244

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1929-6

Electronic_ISBN

0730-9244

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.2008.4590889

Filename

4590889