| Abstract Scope |
Carbon materials derive much of their functional value from morphology and structure, yet most production routes yield a narrow and largely fixed range of outputs. This work examines methane conversion in a staged plasma reactor developed at Rimere, and how plasma and operating conditions influence carbon nucleation, growth, and resulting morphology. From a common feedstock and a common reactor platform, materially different carbon structures have been produced by varying process conditions. Electron microscopy and complementary characterization are used to describe the resulting morphologies and to develop relationships between operating conditions and material output. Hydrogen is generated as a co-product of the same reaction. The presentation describes the synthesis approach, the observed range of carbon morphologies, the process-control parameters under investigation, the characterization methods applied, and a modular reactor architecture intended to preserve these relationships at increasing throughput. |