It is with a proud sense of accomplishment that I am sharing with you this last Editorial during my tenure as your Editor-in-Chief. Since January 1, 2007, I have had the honor and privilege of serving as APJM’s first Editor-in-Chief who is based outside of Asia. Now, after nearly three years and hundreds of manuscripts, I am pleased to announce my editorial retirement and introduce to you our n...

Simulating regional scale secondary organic aerosol formation during the TORCH 2003 campaign in the southern UK D. Johnson, S. R. Utembe, M. E. Jenkin, R. G. Derwent, G. D. Hayman, M. R. Alfarra, H. Coe, and G. McFiggans Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK AEA Technology, 551 Harwell, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QJ, UK School of E...

Gasification of various hydrocarbons with help of thermal plasma is studied at the Institute of Plasma Physics (IPP). Such treatment can be way of recycling of polymer waste with production of high purity synthesis gas (syngas) mainly composed of hydrogen and CO. A plasma torch with hybrid stabilization of arc used in the reactor allows higher efficiency for gasification than other processes. T...

This work presents a novel coating technique to manufacture ceramic superhydrophobic coatings rapidly and economically. A rare earth oxide (REO) was selected as the coating material due to its hydrophobic nature, chemical inertness, high temperature stability, and good mechanical properties, and deposited on stainless steel substrates by solution precursor plasma spray (SPPS). The effects of va...

The present study is dedicated to the reforming of Diesel fuel with Diesel engine exhaust gas using a non-thermal plasma torch for NOx trap regeneration application. The plasma technology developed is based on a high voltage / low current non-thermal plasma torch. In the first part of the paper, experimental results on production of synthesis gas from Diesel fuel reforming with ha l-0 06 17 14 ...