1. Non-thermal plasma for environmental remediation & fuel reforming:

• Plasma assisted fuel reforming;
• VOCs removal; 
• PM 2.5 control; 
• Flue gas emission control. 

2. Development of pulsed power system: 

• 200 kV MARX generator for plasma drilling; 
• Multi-gap spark switches for plasma drilling (20J/pulse); 
• Differentiating-integrating (DI) system for measuring fast, high amplitude voltage and current waveform

•  The reformation of liquid hydrocarbons in an aqueous discharge reactor
      X.  Zhang and M. S. Cha
      J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., (2015)
• Aerosol emission and collection in styrene-contaminated air remediation with a multi-stage plasma system
      Xuming Zhang, Yifan Huang, Zhen Liu, Keping Yan
      Journal of Electrostatics, (2015)
• Partial oxidation of methane in a temperature-controlled dielectric barrier discharge reactor, 
      X.  Zhang and M. S. Cha
      Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 35, 3447-3454, (2015)