{"Page SDG":"SDG07 Affordable and clean energy, SDG09 Industry innovation and infrastructure, SDG08 Decent work and economic growth","Page URL":"https://www.appropedia.org/Open-Source_Portable_Solar_Power_Supply_for_Plasma_Generators","Page affiliations":"FAST, Western","Page authors":"User:J.M.Pearce","Page description":"Non thermal plasmas created by dielectric barrier discharge can break down methane directly to constituent elements without carbon dioxide emissions to produce a high-purity hydrogen and byproduct of solid carbon. To fulfill the environmental promise of plasma generators they must be powered with sustainable energy sources such as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. There is a need to overcome the limitations of past approaches to power plasma systems to develop a completely open source solar PV system design capable of providing the necessary high-quality power. To overcome this research gap, this article provides a customizable open-source PV-powered design for plasma generators, which allows off-grid operation. This design facilitates the modification of existing lab-grade plasma generator setups into portable solar-powered systems. The open source inverter provides for AC loads at both 120 V and 230 V and has an acceptable total harmonic distortion of 3.58 %. The system was successfully able to power plasma generation and produce high quality plasmas with methane. Plasma generators are highly sensitive to any input voltage variation and power oscillation and the open source system provided higher power applied to the plasma reactor, which resulted in increased CH4 conversion by 60.5 % and H2 production 44.7 % compared to grid supply.","Page image":"File:Plasmaga.png","Page keywords":"Distributed Generation, Solar energy, open source hardware, renewable energy, Hydrogen, Photovoltaic, DC-DC converter, Life cycle analysis, Inverter, Solar power supply, Plasma generator","Page language":"en","Page title":"Open-Source Portable Solar Power Supply for Plasma Generators","Page views":"14","Page year":"Wednesday, 01-Jan-25 00:00:00 UTC","Project authors":"User:J.M.Pearce, Md Motakabbir Rahman, Wei Zhang, Ying Zheng","Project coordinates":"42.983675, -81.249605555556","Project location":"London, ON, Canada","Project status":"Designed, Modelled, Prototyped, Verified","Project thumb":"https://www.appropedia.org/w/images/thumb/9/96/Plasmaga.png/330px-Plasmaga.png","Project uses":"renewable energy","Modification date":"Wednesday, 16-Sep-26 13:46:15 UTC"}