Chemical reaction studies in CH4/Ar and CH4/N2 gas mixtures of a dielectric barrier discharge

Abhijit Majumdar; Jürgen F Behnke; Rainer Hippler; Konstantin Matyash; Ralf Schneider

doi:10.1021/jp053588a

Chemical reaction studies in CH4/Ar and CH4/N2 gas mixtures of a dielectric barrier discharge

J Phys Chem A. 2005 Oct 20;109(41):9371-7. doi: 10.1021/jp053588a.

Authors

Abhijit Majumdar¹, Jürgen F Behnke, Rainer Hippler, Konstantin Matyash, Ralf Schneider

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Physik, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Domstrasse 10a, 17489 Greifswald, Germany.

PMID: 16833280
DOI: 10.1021/jp053588a

Abstract

Chemical reactions in a dielectric barrier discharge at medium pressure of 250-300 mbar have been studied in CH(4)/Ar and CH(4)/N(2) gas mixtures by means of mass spectrometry. The main reaction scheme is production of H(2) by fragmentation of CH(4), but also production of higher order hydrocarbon molecules such as C(n)H(m) with n up to 9 including formation of different functional CN groups is observed. Formation of C(2)H(2), C(2)H(4), and C(2)H(6) molecules has been investigated in some detail. Significant differences are noted in comparison to a theoretical estimate.