Plasma-Chemical Simulation Fragmentation of Chloroform in the Liquid Phase by Direct Electrical Discharges

Abstract:

The process of chloroform fragmentation under the influence of low-voltage electrical discharges in the liquid phase is modeled. The composition of the low-temperature plasma of chloroform activation products is determined, using a chemical plasma model (CPM). The CPM is based on the principle of minimizing the Gibbs energy, which is supplemented by the concept of conditionally-equilibrium states for describing the non-equilibrium of an electro-contact plasma. The developed model provided an opportunity to characterize the energy-saturated electronic subsystem with a temperature of ≈ 11600 K and its “cold” part (ions, intermediates, synthons, molecules, etc.), with a temperature of about 1000 K. According to the calculation results, the participation of valence unsaturated fragments CCl₂, CH, Cl^· and molecules HCl, Cl₂, C₂Cl₄, C₂Cl₂ in the transformation of chloroform.

• Periodical: Solid State Phenomena (Volume 299)
• Pages: 1080-1085
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.299.1080
• Online since: January 2020
• Authors: E.Yu. Titov*, I.V. Bodrikov, A. M. Kutin
• Keywords: Chemical Plasma Model, Chloroform, Electrical Discharges, Gibbs Energy Minimization Method

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