Current Project

Exhaust gas management for steel production

The aim of this project is the reprocessing of the emission from a blast furnace or from coke reduction for the production of high-quality chemicals. As a consequence, the CO₂ emission will be reduced to preserve the natural environment. A flexible technique is required, which can selectively influence the chemical reaction channels to regulate the changing overall composition before they are introduced to a catalytic process. Such a procedure is the combination of plasmas with catalytic reactive surfaces, which are analyzed by surface diagnostics as well as plasma diagnostics. The specific goal in the subproject L6 is the controlled removal of O₂ in a H₂, CH₄, N₂ dominated gas stream.