Abstract
A feasible experiment and quantum calculation are performed on plasma direct mass conversion of CO2 into fuel-like species such as CO, CH4, CH3OH, etc. Test mixture gases of (CO2+H2+Ar) and (CO2+H2O+Ar) are discharged into a evacuated chamber in which a plasma reaction furnace is equipped, and directly mass conversed species produced by the plasma are detected by a combined time -of-flight and mass spectrometer technique. We confirm the mass conversion of the mixtures into CO, CH4 and CH3OH with fairly good yields. The molecular orbital method is also found to be a attractive to know the microscopic mechanism, chemical potentials,
