- Title
- Nonequilibrium plasma polymerization of HFC-134a in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor: polymer characterization and a proposed mechanism for polymer formation
- Creator
- Kundu, Sazal K.; Kennedy, Eric M.; MacKie, John C.; Holdsworth, Clovia I.; Molloy, Thomas S.; Gaikwad, Vaibhav V.; Dlugogorski, Bogdan Z.
- Relation
- IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science Vol. 42, Issue 10, p. 3095-3100
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2014.2303485
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2014
- Description
- Nonequilibrium plasma polymerization of hydrofluorocarbon HFC-134(CF3CH2F) in argon bath gas has been studied in a dielectric barrier discharge reactor at atmospheric pressure and in the absence of oxygen and nitrogen. The reaction resulted in the formation of a polymeric solid fraction and the noncrosslinked properties of this material assisted in its characterization by solution state 13C and 19F nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Gel permeation chromatography revealed that the polymers include low (number average molecular weight, Mn values between 900 and 3000 g mol-1) and high (Mn approximately 60000 g mol-1) molecular weight fractions. A detailed polymerization mechanism is proposed, based on the published literature and the findings of the current investigation.
- Subject
- greenhouse gas; hydrofluorocarbon HFC-134a; noncrosslinked polymer; nonequilibrium plasma; polymer characterization
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1299221
- Identifier
- uon:19815
- Identifier
- ISSN:0093-3813
- Language
- eng
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