Plasma-based technologies have emerged as transformative tools in energy storage and environmental pollutant management, gaining significant attention in recent years. Non-thermal plasma, in particular, offers a versatile platform for advanced energy conversion processes and is uniquely suited to integrate with low-cost, renewable electricity sources. This synergy enhances performance while delivering environmental and economic benefits throughout the conversion cycle. To maximize the conversion of greenhouse gases and waste materials, critical scientific challenges must be addressed, including the dynamics of collisions, mass transfer, activation, and control of reactive species at the gas-solid interface in plasma environments. Progress hinges on the development of optimized reactors and highly efficient catalysts tailored for non-thermal plasma applications.
Despite these advances, several challenges remain, including reactor design, process matching, and the underlying mechanisms governing plasma-driven physico-chemical reactions. Integrated systems combining plasma conversion, catalysis, and separation have received limited attention but represent a promising area for innovation. This presentation highlights recent advancements in non-thermal plasma technologies for valorizing greenhouse gases and plastic waste, contributing to a greener circular economy. Key topics include the optimization of plasma physical processes, the development of gas separation membrane reactors, and the design of integrated plasma-catalysis-separation systems for enhanced efficiency and sustainability.
Guoxing Chen is currently a senior scientist at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His current research activities are the utilization of low-temperature plasmas including plasma catalysis for gas conversion and waste materials recycling and development of CO2-resistant mixed ionic–electronic conducting materials for plasma-based reaction separation coupling and oxygen permeation membranes. He received his PhD in Engineering, Science and Technology from Free University of Brussels in 2017. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Darmstadt from 2017 to 2020. He worked as a senior scientist at Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies from 2020 to 2024. He has published ~ 60 high quality peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals in the field of energy, chemical engineering and plasma physics and chemistry such as Nature Review Materials Angewandte chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Advanced Functional Materials and Chemical Engineering Journal. Recently, he has been awarded Future Chemical Engineering Scholar (2023) from Global Chinese Chemical Engineering Symposium (GCCES), Top 10 leading Chinese talents in science and technology in Europe (2023) from Federation of Chinese Professional Associations in Europe (FCPAE) and 2024 RINENG Young Investigator Award from Results in Engineering (Elsevier).
Plasma-based technologies have emerged as transformative tools in energy storage and environmental pollutant management, gaining significant attention in recent years. Non-thermal plasma, in particular, offers a versatile platform for advanced energy conversion processes and is uniquely suited to integrate with low-cost, renewable electricity sources. This synergy enhances performance while delivering environmental and economic benefits throughout the conversion cycle. To maximize the conversion of greenhouse gases and waste materials, critical scientific challenges must be addressed, including the dynamics of collisions, mass transfer, activation, and control of reactive species at the gas-solid interface in plasma environments. Progress hinges on the development of optimized reactors and highly efficient catalysts tailored for non-thermal plasma applications.
Despite these advances, several challenges remain, including reactor design, process matching, and the underlying mechanisms governing plasma-driven physico-chemical reactions. Integrated systems combining plasma conversion, catalysis, and separation have received limited attention but represent a promising area for innovation. This presentation highlights recent advancements in non-thermal plasma technologies for valorizing greenhouse gases and plastic waste, contributing to a greener circular economy. Key topics include the optimization of plasma physical processes, the development of gas separation membrane reactors, and the design of integrated plasma-catalysis-separation systems for enhanced efficiency and sustainability.
Guoxing Chen is currently a senior scientist at the Technical University of Darmstadt. His current research activities are the utilization of low-temperature plasmas including plasma catalysis for gas conversion and waste materials recycling and development of CO2-resistant mixed ionic–electronic conducting materials for plasma-based reaction separation coupling and oxygen permeation membranes. He received his PhD in Engineering, Science and Technology from Free University of Brussels in 2017. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Darmstadt from 2017 to 2020. He worked as a senior scientist at Fraunhofer Research Institution for Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies from 2020 to 2024. He has published ~ 60 high quality peer-reviewed papers in leading international journals in the field of energy, chemical engineering and plasma physics and chemistry such as Nature Review Materials Angewandte chemie, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Advanced Functional Materials and Chemical Engineering Journal. Recently, he has been awarded Future Chemical Engineering Scholar (2023) from Global Chinese Chemical Engineering Symposium (GCCES), Top 10 leading Chinese talents in science and technology in Europe (2023) from Federation of Chinese Professional Associations in Europe (FCPAE) and 2024 RINENG Young Investigator Award from Results in Engineering (Elsevier).
