CONFERENCE SUPPORT FOR THE 4TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON NON THERMAL PLASMA (May 10-14, 2004)

第四届非热等离子体国际研讨会的会议支持（2004年5月10-14日）

• 批准号: 0352289
• 负责人: Bruce Locke
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: Florida State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-03-01 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0352289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CONFERENCE; SUPPORT; 4TH; INTERNATIONAL; SYMPOSIUM

The 4th International Symposium on Non-thermal Plasma Technologies for PollutionControl and Sustainable Energy Development will be held in Panama City Beach, Florida, May 10-14, 2004. It is devoted to advancing the field of non-thermal plasma processes for environmental protection, including applications to air and water treatment and to sustainable energy processing. This meeting is intended to assemble experts from all over the world to present recent advances to the field and to discuss the prospects of these technologies for future development and study. The objectives of this meeting are therefore:1) to assemble key research groups working on the environmental applications of non-thermalplasma including air and water treatment and sustainable energy processing,2) to provide a stimulating environment to foster scientific exchange and discussion of the mostimportant current issues related to the development of this area of technology, and3) to conduct extensive discussions on the directions for future work and development.This award provides supplemental funding to support this conference through some travel and publication costs. This conference can lead to broader impacts as follows. The conference will enhance and promote collaboration among scientists and engineers from large variety of disciplines and from a wide range of nations. It will engage a number of graduate students, and particularly women and under-represented minorities in order to develop the next generation of researchers. The intellectual merit of the conference is reflected in the high quality of the participating researchers representing major laboratories from top institutions worldwide. It will provide useful input to NSF as a guide to grant investments in this evolving field.A non-thermal plasma is a plasma, or collection of free and randomly moving ions, that ischaracterized by low background temperature, or energy, in combination with highly energeticelectrons. Typically, non-thermal plasma can be produced using a wide variety of high voltageelectrical discharges (e.g., AC, DC, and pulsed) as well as with electron beams. The largestcommercial application of non-thermal plasma in the environmental field is the use of ACdielectric barrier discharge reactors for producing ozone, generally, subsequently used in watertreatment. Other commercial applications of non-thermal plasma include flue gas treatment frompower plants and incinerators and indoor air cleaning. Over the last 15 years there has beenconsiderable interest and research devoted to testing, evaluating, and developing non-thermalplasmas for other applications. These other applications include treatment of volatile andhazardous organic compounds in gases, treatment of nitrogen oxides and particulate matter fromthe exhaust of mobile sources, treatment of organic, inorganic, and biological matter incontaminated water, synthetic chemical processes, and destruction of hazardous chemical andbiological agents. While the technology for ozone generation is fairly mature, developments forother applications are intensively under investigation due to the high sensitivity of reactorperformance on the reactor design and operating conditions (e.g., gas and/or liquid composition,nature of applied electric field, addition of catalysts, and other factors). Recent developments inthe fields of plasma-catalysis, gas-liquid discharge phenomena, and hydrocarbon reforming fromnatural gas are particularly promising and can contribute to the development of useful and efficient technologies.

第四届国际低温等离子体技术污染控制和可持续能源开发研讨会将于2004年5月10-14日在佛罗里达的巴拿马城海滩举行。 该公司致力于推进用于环境保护的非热等离子体工艺领域，包括空气和水处理以及可持续能源加工的应用。 本次会议旨在汇集来自世界各地的专家，介绍该领域的最新进展，并讨论这些技术未来发展和研究的前景。 因此，本次会议的目标是：1）聚集在非热等离子体的环境应用，包括空气和水处理和可持续能源处理工作的关键研究小组，2）提供一个激励的环境，以促进科学交流和讨论的最重要的当前问题有关的技术领域的发展，和3）进行广泛的讨论，对未来的工作和发展的方向。 这次会议可以产生以下更广泛的影响。会议将加强和促进来自不同学科和不同国家的科学家和工程师之间的合作。 它将吸引一些研究生，特别是妇女和代表性不足的少数民族，以培养下一代研究人员。 会议的学术价值体现在代表全球顶级机构主要实验室的参与研究人员的高质量。 它将为NSF提供有用的输入，作为在这个不断发展的领域进行投资的指南。非热等离子体是一种等离子体，或自由和随机移动的离子的集合，其特征是低背景温度或能量，与高能电子结合。 通常，非热等离子体可以使用各种高压放电（例如，AC、DC和脉冲）以及电子束。 低温等离子体在环境领域最大的商业应用是使用交流介质阻挡放电反应器产生臭氧，通常随后用于水处理。 非热等离子体的其他商业应用包括发电厂和焚化炉的烟道气处理以及室内空气净化。 在过去的15年里，人们对测试、评估和开发非热等离子体的其他应用产生了相当大的兴趣和研究。 这些其它应用包括处理气体中的挥发性和有害有机化合物，处理来自移动的排放源的氮氧化物和颗粒物质，处理污染水中的有机、无机和生物物质，合成化学过程，以及销毁有害化学和生物制剂。 虽然臭氧发生技术已经相当成熟，但由于反应器性能对反应器设计和操作条件的高度敏感性（例如，气体和/或液体组成、所施加电场的性质、催化剂的添加和其它因素）。 等离子体催化、气液放电现象和天然气烃类转化等领域的最新发展特别有前途，有助于开发有用和有效的技术。