Étude expérimentale et théorique de la fragmentation de Composés Organiques Volatils pour des applications environnementales

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This thesis is an experimental and theoretical study of organic compounds fragmentation. For this purpose, we had to built a new non-thermal plasma reactor and modify a statistical model used for nuclear fragmentation (Microcanonical Metropolis Monte Carlo or MMMC) to describe the fragmentation of CnHm types species. The non-thermal plasma is created by a nanosecond high-voltage (100 kV) pulse with a steep rise front (15-20 kV.ns-1). This pulse allows to have a large volume of diffuse plasma and to create important quantities of reactive species (radicals, metastables, etc.), which could react with organic molecules. In the case of propane fragmentation, the non-equilibrium discharge used allows to product as major by-products methane, ethane and propene. The energetic efficiency of the conversion by this discharge is twice more efficient than the one obtained with a dielectric barrier discharge or a pre-ionised discharge. The MMMC model describes, for a given energy, the accessible ph

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