Applications
Plasma chemistry
- Chemical process of obtaining acetylene and hydrogen from natural gas in hydrogen plasma
- Obtaining nitrides, carbides, and oxides
Plasma metallurgy
- Plasma method to directly produce molten steel from iron or pellets
- Alloying
- Production of metals from oxides, coating of metals
- Obtaining ultra-disperse powders with high melting points
- Smelting using plasma
Plasma processing of materials
- Modification of surfaces, hardening of steel surfaces
- Reactivation of active charcoal
- Plasma spraying of materials
- Plasma treatment of powdered materials (metals and non-metals)
- Obtaining very fine mineral fibers
- Plasma methods for the production of porous glass and ceramic microspheres
Power industry
- Plasma stimulation of the combustion of low-energy fuels
- Plasma gasification in low-energy fuel plasma reactors
Ecology, gasification
- Plasma pyrolysis and processing of wastes
- Gasification of household waste in plasma reactors
- Disposal of toxic waste (e.g. agro-chemical products, military materials, industrial wastes) in plasma reactors
- Disposal of hospital and biological waste
- Vitrification of toxic ash produced by waste incinerators
- Thermal processing of rubber products, including tires, to produce hydrocarbons
- Vitrification of radioactive material
Production of nanomaterials
- Production of 10 to 200 nm (0.01 – 0.2 µm) nanomaterials
- Production of nanomaterials from solution
- Production of hydrocarbon nanomaterials
Process modeling
- Tests to determine the thermal erosion of materials in homogenous and non-homogenous high enthalpy flows