Plasma-Chemical Simulation Fragmentation of Chloroform in the Liquid Phase by Direct Electrical Discharges

The process of chloroform fragmentation under the influence of low-voltage electrical discharges in the liquid phase is modeled. The composition of the low-temperature plasma of chloroform activation products is determined, using a chemical plasma model (CPM). The CPM is based on the principle of minimizing the Gibbs energy, which is supplemented by the concept of conditionally-equilibrium states for describing the non-equilibrium of an electro-contact plasma. The developed model provided an opportunity to characterize the energy-saturated electronic subsystem with a temperature of ≈ 11600 K and its “cold” part (ions, intermediates, synthons, molecules, etc.), with a temperature of about 1000 K. According to the calculation results, the participation of valence unsaturated fragments CCl2, CH, Cl· and molecules HCl, Cl2, C2Cl4, C2Cl2 in the transformation of chloroform.