Method for processing contaminated carbonaceous material

Abstract

The current invention relates to a method for processing contaminated carbonaceous material, said contaminated carbonaceous material comprising a carbonaceous carrier loaded with a contaminate, wherein said contaminate is a halide, a halogenated compound, or a mixture thereof, wherein the method comprises the steps of: (i) providing a process gas to one or more plasma jet generators; (ii) igniting a plasma in the process gas by said plasma jet generators, thereby obtaining a plasma jet comprising reactive species; (iii) introducing the plasma jet into a reaction chamber comprising said contaminated carbonaceous material, thereby allowing said reactive species to decompose said contaminate to halide comprising products; and (iv) extracting product gas from the reaction chamber, said product gas comprising halide comprising products. In another aspect the invention relates to a method and a kit for removal and destruction of a contaminate in water.

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