Carbon Dioxide Reformation

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Carbon dioxide is the biggest pollutant and green house gas. There is a great need for discovering different synthesis routes for reforming carbon dioxide into useful compounds.

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We reform carbon dioxide in presence of methane/hydrogen. The feed gases are excited to plasma using Radio Frequency waves. The active species in this state interact with each other on the surface of metal and metal oxides. Metals having low melting points like Gallium and Aluminum and their oxides are being explored as catalyst. We are aiming to understand the interaction of hydrogen with different catalyst as different catalysts promote different reaction products for same feed gases.