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1Department of Materials, Physics and Energy Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Nagoya University, Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya 464-8603, Japan. tyoshida@nucl.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Abstract:
We have proposed a technique to enhance the decomposition of carbon dioxide by gamma irradiation. This is possible by putting metal components into CO2 gas to promote the conversion of gamma rays to lower-energy electrons through Compton, photoelectron and cascading electron knock-on events in metals. Numerical simulations using the EGS code indicated that the number of lower-energy electrons ejected from metals into CO2 gas increases with increasing Z number and/or density of the metals; this was supported by the experimental results, i.e., the CO2-containing metals with a higher Z number exhibited a greater efficiency for production of CO. In addition, production of CO could be enhanced by carefully controlling the volume and surface area of metal components as well as the proximity to adjacent metal components. These experimental results successfully demonstrated that modification of the kinds of metal components and metal structures can control the energy and the number of electrons ejected from the metals and can lead to enhancement of production of CO from CO2.
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