Method and device for decomposing carbon dioxide

Abstract

Method and device for transforming carbon dioxide (CO2) into its elements, C and O2, by the combined use of laser irradiation (4) and discharge plasma with dielectric barrier (1), on catalysts of ceramic or metallic substrates of high melting point, applied in a chamber (2), such that the laser radiation increases the temperature only in the area in which it is applied, on the catalysts, so that the emission plasma reaches a temperature close to 3400 K, capable of achieving the decomposition of CO2, only in that area and not in the entire chamber of the plasma reactor.