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This work is devoted to the exploration of the compatibility of the hybrid plasma-catalytic conversion of liquid hydrocarbons into syngas with the concept of sustainable development. The results of experimental investigations indicate the high efficiency of plasma-catalytic conversion of ethanol to syngas and the small amount of waste (a few percent of feedstock weight). The results of the simulation of the kinetics using ZDPlasKin code for thermochemical and hybrid plasma-catalytic conversion.

Pulsed electric discharges in a liquid with the sufficiently wide range of energy contributions to them can generate diverging shock waves. А significant part of this energy is carried away by these waves from the center of the system to its periphery. At the same time, pulsed plasma-liquid systems limited by reflecting walls of both cylindrical and spherical geometry are insufficiently studied. A fundamental feature of such systems is the generation of a sequence of both diverging and converging (reflected) shock waves by a single pulse discharge. It was shown earlier that in a cylindrical plasma-liquid system with a height of the cylinder (h) comparable with the interelectrode distance (d), radius of the cylinder base R (at R >> h), when discharge current is increased, the ratio of the second diverging shock wave amplitude to the amplitude of the first diverging shock wave can be → 1. This leads to effective return of the energy carried away to the periphery back to the center of the system by converging shock waves. The collapse of the converging shock waves and initiated processes in the center of such plasma-fluid systems can be very interesting. The paper presents the results of experimental studies of pulsed cylindrical plasma-liquid system using both H 2 O and a mixture of H 2 O / D 2 O and pure D 2 O as a liquid. The energy-storage capacitor is charged by using a high voltage DC power supply (up to 70 kV).

Experimental studies of the electrical parameters of the microdischarge and the plasma of the microdischarge in the vortex flow of CO₂ as the plasma-forming gas was carried out. The kinetics of the formation of some components of microwave plasma was considered using ZDPlasKin computer code and Bolsig+ at experimentally measured electric field strengths, pressure and gas temperature. The key reactions of microdischarge were determined. The Bolsig+ code was used to determine the mean energy of electrons.

<p>Pulsed electric discharges in a liquid with the sufficiently wide range of energy contributions to them can generate diverging shock waves. А significant part of this energy is carried away by these waves from the center of the system to its periphery. At the same time, pulsed plasma-liquid systems limited by reflecting walls of both cylindrical and spherical geometry are insufficiently studied. A fundamental feature of such systems is the generation of a sequence of both diverging and converging (reflected) shock waves by a single pulse discharge. It was shown earlier that in a cylindrical plasma-liquid system with a height of the cylinder (h) comparable with the interelectrode distance (d), radius of the cylinder base R (at R >> h), when discharge current is increased, the ratio of the second diverging shock wave amplitude to the amplitude of the first diverging shock wave can be → 1. This leads to effective return of the energy carried away to the periphery back to the center of the system by converging shock waves. The collapse of the converging shock waves and initiated processes in the center of such plasma-fluid systems can be very interesting. The paper presents the results of experimental studies of pulsed cylindrical plasma-liquid system using both H₂O and a mixture of H₂O / D₂O and pure D₂O as a liquid. The energy-storage capacitor is charged by using a high voltage DC power supply (up to 70 kV).</p>