Project description
Plasma-assisted combustion to reduce CO2 emissions
CO2 emissions from fuel combustion represent the majority of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. While clean electrified solutions will not reach commercial development before 2040, CO2-neutral (biofuels) or CO2-free (hydrogen) combustion technologies offer promising alternatives. However, so far, they cannot reach increasingly stringent regulations on pollutant emissions, especially nitric oxides and carbon monoxide. Plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) may be an answer to that difficulty, but the method's effect on pollutants is not entirely understood. The EU-funded GREENBLUE project will provide research to develop a robust and adaptable model to predict PAC effects in large-scale combustors and demonstrate a stable, nitric oxide low, sustainable fuel/air or hydrogen/air flame in a combustor representative of aircraft engines.
Objective
To fight climate change, we must urgently reduce the CO2 emissions caused by fossil-fuel combustion, which represents today over 80% of the primary energy production. Clean electrified solutions are on the horizon but are unlikely to reach commercial development before 2040. Novel CO2-neutral (biofuels) or CO2-free (H2) combustion technologies are widely considered, but these technologies face increasingly stringent regulations on pollutant emissions, in particular nitric oxides and carbon monoxide. To reduce pollutants, the strategy is to use low-temperature flames. However, these flames are prone to instabilities and extinction, thus causing safety issues. Plasma-assisted combustion (PAC) is a highly promising method to stabilize low-temperature flames thanks to the extraordinary ability of plasma discharges to efficiently produce combustion-enhancing radicals. Today, however, their effects on pollutants are poorly understood and their scalability to industrial combustors remains to be proven.
Our goal is to bring PAC to the level of maturity needed to make it practical on real combustion devices. For this, we will first elucidate the thermochemical mechanisms of plasma stabilization in CH4- and H2-air flames and their impact on pollutant emissions. This will require measuring the rates of poorly known reactions involving excited electronic states of molecules with advanced femtosecond optical diagnostics. With this knowledge, we will explore two novel strategies to minimize pollutants. We will then develop a robust and versatile multi-physics model to predict PAC effects in large-scale combustors. The final challenge will be to demonstrate for the first time a stable, low NOx, hydrogen/air flame in a combustor representative of aircraft engines. Beyond combustion, this project will open novel ways to better predict, control, and enhance chemical processes in applications such as hydrogen production, CO2 conversion, bio-decontamination, or materials synthesis.
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H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)
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France
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