Plasma power-to-X (PP2X): status and opportunities for non-thermal plasma technologies
Abstract This article discusses the ‘power-to-X’ (P2X) concept, highlighting the integral role of non-thermal plasma (NTP) in P2X for the eco-friendly production of chemicals and valuable fuels. NTP with unique thermally non-equilibrium characteristics, enables exotic reactions to occur under ambient conditions. This review summarizes the plasma-based P2X systems, including plasma discharges, reactor configurations, catalytic or non-catalytic processes, and modeling techniques. Especially, the potential of NTP to directly convert stable molecules including CO 2 , CH 4 and air/N 2 is critically examined. Additionally, we further present and discuss hybrid technologies that integrate NTP with photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and biocatalysis, broadening its applications in P2X. It concludes by identifying key challenges, such as high energy consumption, and calls for the outlook in plasma catalysis and complex reaction systems to generate valuable products efficiently and sustainably, and achieve the industrial viability of the proposed plasma P2X strategy.
Authors
- Anthony B. Murphy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2820-2304)
- Volker Hessel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9494-1519)
- Ana Borrás (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8799-2054)
- Dawei Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3503-2099)
- Kostya Ostrikov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8672-9297)
- Dingxin Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-2903)
- Liguang Dou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7894-957X)
- Zhongping Qu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0268-4766)
- Shuai Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5350-4048)
- Shaojun Xu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8026-8714)
- Zheng Bo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9308-7624)
- Renwu Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1773-7095)
- Patrick J. Cullen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7654-6171)
- Xin Cheng Tu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6376-0897)
- Rouhollah Jalili (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3851-0818)
- Rusen Zhou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0762-7792)
- Michael Keidar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0869-4310)
- Volker Brüser
- Krasimir Vasilev (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3534-4754)
- Wei‐Hung Chiang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6350-6696)
- Annemie Bogaerts (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9875-6460)
- Jungmi Hong (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6998-9502)
- Danhua Mei (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3024-3551)
- Chuanlong Ma (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2847-1635)
- Ángel Barranco (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8099-7669)
- Anton Yu Nikiforov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2255-6419)
- Zhi Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9116-5449)
- Tao Shao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5738-1241)
- Xinpei Lu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0676-9585)
- Tianyu Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8775-8137)
- Tianqi Zhang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6256-0877)
- Guoxing Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1570-4639)
- Guangliang Chen
- Yuting Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5912-193X)
- Liming Dai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3713-1971)
- Jing Sun (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9820-5754)
- Klaus-Dieter Weltmann
Institutions
- The University of Sydney (AU)
- Nanjing Tech University (CN)
- University of Liverpool (GB)
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (TW)
- Queensland University of Technology (AU)
- Hefei University of Technology (CN)
- Flinders University (AU)
- George Washington University (US)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
- Huzhou Normal University (CN)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- Ghent University (BE)
- Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (DE)
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Sevilla (ES)
- XING Technologies (Australia) (AU)
- Zhejiang Energy Research Institute (CN)
- Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies IWKS (DE)
- Institute of Electrical Engineering (CN)
- Zhejiang Energy Group (China) (CN)
- CSIRO Manufacturing (AU)
- Huazhong University of Science and Technology (CN)
- McGill University (CA)
- The University of Adelaide (AU)
- Xi'an Jiaotong University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
- Published
- 2024-09-17
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6463/ad7bc4
- Citations
- 26
- Primary Topic
- Plasma Applications and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 10.51
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
- Australian Research Council