- Development and parameterization of reactors to test and assess the in-situ soil remediation by non-thermal plasma.
- Identification of the pore-scale mechanisms (e.g. oxidation, vaporization, diffusion) of bulk pollutant and dissolved compounds destruction by micro-discharges.
- Development of instrumentation and control systems for the on-line monitoring of the plasma reactive species and energy consumed.
- Quantification of the effects of soil and pollutant type, moisture content, and oxidant type on the performance of in-situ plasma reactor.
- Development of a mechanistic pore-network simulator of pollutant remediation by coupling the energy and mass transfer from plasma to polluted porous medium with momentum-, mass-, heat-transfer and reactive processes occurring in the interconnected pores.
- Development of an experimentally-validated macroscopic numerical model of the coupled reactive / transport processes in soils during their in-situ treatment by non-thermal plasma.
- Designment of a pilot non-thermal plasma (NTP) facility for the in situ remediation of soils.
- Assessment of the environmental impacts of the technology.
