Thermal Plasma for Treating Process Liquors / Plasma thermique pour le traitement des liqueurs de procédés

虽然被认为是一个布恩社会一般，工业革命的过去两个世纪也导致了我们的日常环境逐渐恶化。 当今使用的许多制造工艺产生大量温室气体（GHG）排放，并需要大量的能源投入。随着监管机构继续立法，对排放到我们环境中的温室气体水平进行更严格的限制，很明显，必须开发更节能的技术，以在排放前清洁加工液，或至少将污染物减少到可接受的最低水平，以便我们的工业可以继续保持清洁，同时保持其经济竞争力。化学工程和生物技术工程系正在进行的等离子体处理工作已经出现了这样一种有前途的技术。在舍布鲁克大学等离子体是物质的一种物理状态，普通物质在暴露于非常高的温度（超过4000 °C）时，在蒸发时转化为电子、离子和中性粒子的混合物，因此通常称为“热等离子体”。

Although considered to be a boon to society in general, the industrial revolution of the past 2 centuries has also resulted in the gradual deterioration of our everyday environment. Many of the manufacturing processes in use today produce large emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) and require large energy inputs. As regulatory bodies continue to legislate for more stringent limits on the levels of GHG released into our environment, it is clear that more energy efficient technologies must be developed to clean process liquors before discharge or at least reduce the contaminants to acceptable minimum levels so that our industries can continue to be clean, yet maintain their economic competitiveness. One such promising technology has emerged from the ongoing plasma processing work of the Chemical Engineering and Biotechnological Engineering Dept. at the Université de Sherbrooke. Plasma is a physical state of materials whereby ordinary matter is converted, on vaporisation, to a mixture of electrons, ions and neutral particles on exposure to very high temperatures (in excess of 4000 °C), hence the generally used name, "thermal plasma".