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Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) has been increasing since the beginning of the industrial revolution mainly from the combustion of fossil fuels. This makes it very important to find alternative energy sources in which CO2 is not emitted and ways to remove it artificially from the atmosphere. One solution for both this problems is the Fischer–Tropsch cycle, but that requires the dissociation of CO2 into carbon monoxide, which is challenging to be done efficiently.
This project studies a system that is trying to do it under low-temperatures plasmas using microwave discharges. More specifically it tries to explain the source of atomic oxygen that forms in the post-discharge region. The study is mostly computational using a kinetic description of the free electrons and a volume averaged chemistry solver.
