Low-temperature ignition of methane-air mixtures under the action of nonequilibrium plasma. Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry B Volume 7, Issue 4, July 2013, Pages 410-423

A plasma-chemical kinetic mechanism of the low-temperature (600 < T < 1000 K) oxidation/combustion of methane under conditions of nonequilibrium plasma over a wide pressure range (P = 0.1-100 atm) is developed and verified. The mechanism is comprised of three types of elementary processes: chemical reaction of neutral atoms and molecules, primary plasma-chemical processes involving electrons, and secondary plasma-chemical processes involving atomic and molecular ions and excited species. Application of the developed mechanism to describing the plasma-assisted oxidation of methane shows that this mechanism can describe the experimental results qualitatively and quantitatively.
Author keywords
air; low-temperature ignition; methane; nonequilibrium plasma; plasma-chemical mechanism