catalysts Plasma Catalysis Edited by Annemie Bogaerts Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Catalysts www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts Plasma Catalysis Plasma Catalysis Special Issue Editor Annemie Bogaerts MDPI • Basel • Beijing • Wuhan • Barcelona • Belgrade Special Issue Editor Annemie Bogaerts Universiteit Antwerpen Belgium Editorial Office MDPI St. Alban-Anlage 66 4052 Basel, Switzerland This is a reprint of articles from the Special Issue published online in the open access journal Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344) from 2018 to 2019 (available at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/catalysts/special issues/plasma catalysis) For citation purposes, cite each article independently as indicated on the article page online and as indicated below: LastName, A.A.; LastName, B.B.; LastName, C.C. Article Title. Journal Name Year, Article Number, Page Range. ISBN 978-3-03897-750-6 (Pbk) ISBN 978-3-03897-751-3 (PDF) c 2019 by the authors. Articles in this book are Open Access and distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which allows users to download, copy and build upon published articles, as long as the author and publisher are properly credited, which ensures maximum dissemination and a wider impact of our publications. The book as a whole is distributed by MDPI under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND. Contents About the Special Issue Editor ...................................... vii Annemie Bogaerts Editorial Catalysts: Special Issue on Plasma Catalysis Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 196, doi:10.3390/catal9020196 ................... 1 Savita K. P. Veerapandian, Nathalie De Geyter, Jean-Marc Giraudon, Jean-Fran¸cois Lamonier and Rino Morent The Use of Zeolites for VOCs Abatement by Combining Non-Thermal Plasma, Adsorption, and/or Catalysis: A Review Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 98, doi:10.3390/catal9010098 .................... 6 Mingxiang Gao, Ya Zhang, Hongyu Wang, Bin Guo, Quanzhi Zhang and Annemie Bogaerts Mode Transition of Filaments in Packed-Bed Dielectric Barrier Discharges Reprinted from: Catalysts 2018, 8, 248, doi:10.3390/catal8060248 ................... 46 Paula Navascu´es, Jose M. Obrero-P´erez, Jos´e Cotrino, Agust´ın R. Gonz´alez-Elipe and Ana G´omez-Ram´ırez Isotope Labelling for Reaction Mechanism Analysis in DBD Plasma Processes Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 45, doi:10.3390/catal9010045 .................... 64 Guido Giammaria, Gerard van Rooij and Leon Lefferts Plasma Catalysis: Distinguishing between Thermal and Chemical Effects Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 185, doi:10.3390/catal9020185 ................... 76 Amin Zhou, Dong Chen, Cunhua Ma, Feng Yu and Bin Dai DBD Plasma-ZrO2 Catalytic Decomposition of CO2 at Low Temperatures Reprinted from: Catalysts 2018, 8, 256, doi:10.3390/catal8070256 ...................101 Inne Michielsen, Yannick Uytdenhouwen, Annemie Bogaerts and Vera Meynen Altering Conversion and Product Selectivity of Dry Reforming of Methane in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge by Changing the Dielectric Packing Material Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 51, doi:10.3390/catal9010051 ....................112 Zixian Jia, Xianjie Wang, Emeric Foucher, Frederic Thevenet and Antoine Rousseau Plasma-Catalytic Mineralization of Toluene Adsorbed on CeO2 Reprinted from: Catalysts 2018, 8, 303, doi:10.3390/catal8080303 ...................144 Xiangzhi Kong, Hao Zhang, Xiaodong Li, Ruiyang Xu, Ishrat Mubeen, Li Li and Jianhua Yan Destruction of Toluene, Naphthalene and Phenanthrene as Model Tar Compounds in a Modified Rotating Gliding Arc Discharge Reactor Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 19, doi:10.3390/catal9010019 ....................159 Yan Gao, Wenchao Jiang, Tao Luan, Hui Li, Wenke Zhang, Wenchen Feng and Haolin Jiang High-Efficiency Catalytic Conversion of NOx by the Synergy of Nanocatalyst and Plasma: Effect of Mn-Based Bimetallic Active Species Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 103, doi:10.3390/catal9010103 ...................179 Kejie Xuan, Xinbo Zhu, Yuxiang Cai and Xin Tu Plasma Oxidation of H2S over Non-stoichiometric LaxMnO3 Perovskite Catalysts in a Dielectric Barrier Discharge Reactor Reprinted from: Catalysts 2018, 8, 317, doi:10.3390/catal8080317 ...................201 v Javishk R. Shah, Joshua M. Harrison and Maria L. Carreon Ammonia Plasma-Catalytic Synthesis Using Low Melting Point Alloys Reprinted from: Catalysts 2018, 8, 437, doi:10.3390/catal8100437 ...................214 Li Wang, YanHui Yi, HongChen Guo, XiaoMin Du, Bin Zhu and YiMin Zhu Highly Dispersed Co Nanoparticles Prepared by an Improved Method for Plasma-Driven NH3 Decomposition to Produce H2 Reprinted from: Catalysts 2019, 9, 107, doi:10.3390/catal9020107 ...................224 vi About the Special Issue Editor Annemie Bogaerts was born in 1971. She obtained her M.Sc. in Chemistry in 1993 and her Ph.D. in Sciences in 1996, both from the University of Antwerp, Belgium. After some postdoc years, she became a professor at the University of Antwerp in 2003, and is full professor since 2014. She is head of the research group PLASMANT, which she started in 2004, based on her own Ph.D. work. Currently, the group has 37 members (2 professors, 15 postdocs, 18 Ph.D. students, and 2 technical coworkers). She has over 470 peer-reviewed publications since 1995, and over 11,500 citations, with a H-index of 52 (Web of Science) (over 16,000 citations and H-index of 63 in Google Scholar). Furthermore, she has more than 140 invited lectures at international conferences (since 1998) and more than 60 invited seminars at universities/institutes (since 1995), in various countries. She was the supervisor of 29 finished Ph.D. theses (since 2005), and is now supervising 23 Ph.D. students (incl. joint Ph.D. students with other universities), and 12 postdocs. She has received many scientific awards, including the Prize of the Research Council of the University of Antwerp in Exact Sciences (1998), the Prize of the “Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie¨ voor Wetenschappen en Kunsten” in de category Exact Sciences (2001), the Alumni Prize of the “Belgian-American Educational Foundation” (2003), the “Lester W. Strock Award of the New England Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy”, in recognition of “Outstanding contributions in the areas of plasma and surface modeling” (2008) and the “Winter Plasma Award”, in recognition of “Outstanding contributions in the field of laser ablation modeling” (2009). Recently she obtained an ERC Synergy Grant (2019–2025), on plasma catalysis for small molecules conversion, together with G. Centi, V. Hessel and E. Rebrov. She is a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts (since 2012), the Academia Europaea (since 2011), and the Solvay Local Scientific Committee for Chemistry (since 2013). In 2013–2016, she was Francqui Research Professor. She is a member of the editorial or advisory board of several journals. She was editor of Spectrochimica Acta Part B, responsible for the review papers, from 2002 to 2018. Since 2018, she is Topics Editor of the Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, for a program “Advances in Plasmas for a Sustainable Future”. She also acted more than 10 times as guest editor for a Special Issue. Moreover, she is on the international scientific committee of several international conferences, and was chair of the “International Symposium of Plasma Chemistry” (ISPC), organized in Antwerp in 2015, which attracted almost 600 participants. She is also the Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the “International Workshop on Plasmas for Cancer Treatment” (IWPCT). She is a world-leading expert in modeling and simulation of reactive plasmas, mainly for environmental/energy (gas conversion) and medical applications (cancer treatment). This includes plasma chemistry and plasma reactor design modeling, as well as plasma–surface interaction simulations, e.g., for catalyst surfaces. She is also working on experimental plasma chemistry, with a special focus on plasma-based CO2 conversion. vii catalysts Editorial Editorial Catalysts: Special Issue on Plasma Catalysis Annemie Bogaerts Research Group PLASMANT, Department of Chemistry, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, BE-2610 Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium; [email protected] Received: 14 February 2019; Accepted: 20 February 2019; Published: 21 February 2019 Plasma catalysis is gaining increasing interest for various gas conversion applications, such as CO2 conversion into value-added chemicals and fuels, N2 fixation for the synthesis of NH3 or NOx, and CH4 conversion into higher hydrocarbons or oxygenates [1,2]. In addition, it is widely used for air pollution control (e.g., volatile organic compound (VOC) remediation) and waste gas treatment [3–6]. Plasma allows thermodynamically difficult reactions to proceed at an ambient pressure and temperature because the gas molecules are activated by energetic electrons created in the plasma. Plasma is indeed very reactive, being a cocktail of many different types of reactive species (electrons, various ions, radicals, excited species, besides neutral gas molecules), but for this reason, it is not really selective. Therefore, a catalyst is needed to improve the selectivity towards the production of targeted compounds. In spite of the growing interest in plasma catalysis, the underlying mechanisms of the (possible) synergy between plasma and catalyst are not yet fully understood [7]. Indeed, these mechanisms are quite complicated, as the plasma will affect the catalyst and vice versa