1. EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COST is supported by the EU RTD Framework Programme ESF provides the COST Office through an EC contract www.cost.eu COST Action TD1208 Electrical discharges with liquids for future applications Viktorija Grigaitiene vika@mail.lei.lt Breslaujos g. 3, LT-44403, Kaunas, Lithuania Lithuanian Energy Institute, Plasma Processing Laboratory Studied topics, related to WG2  development and research of DC plasma sources for a wide range of applications;  research of processes and phenomena taking place in discharge channels, exhaust plasma jets and flows;  plasma and high-temperature gas flows diagnostics and development of diagnostics measures;  interaction of plasma jets and substances in various plasma-technological processes;  research and implementation of plasma neutralization process of hazardous substances;  synthesis and characterization of catalytic and tribological coatings in plasma ambient;  generation of water vapour plasma and its application for fuel conversion and neutralization of hazardous waste. Plasma outflow from a linear direct current plasma torch Water vapour plasma torch Water vapour plasma torch and plasmachemical reactor for liquid waste treatment and fuel conversion

2. EUROPEAN COOPERATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COST is supported by the EU RTD Framework Programme ESF provides the COST Office through an EC contract www.cost.eu COST Action TD1208 Electrical discharges with liquids for future applications Main experimental/computational facilities Laboratory of Plasma Processing develops novel plasma generators up to 200 kW of capacity, working at atmospheric pressure and improves the construction of the existing ones. Recently a novel water vapour plasma generator has been developed. The obtained results show that the generator is suitable for the realization of various processes in the reactive arc zone and may be used for the conversion of solid, liquid, organic and inorganic materials into gas. Plasma diagnostics is available by numerical and experimental methods. A numerical research of heated gas jet in the channel was performed applying hydrodynamics software ANSYS Fluent. Recently, contact and non-contact methods have been widely applied for plasma diagnostics in the Laboratory. They are: optical spectroscopy method (wavelength range of 250–800 nm); System of double Langmuir probe; Calorimetric probe; Various thermocouples; High speed video camera; FTIR spectroscopy; BET surface analysis; chromatography. Main research collaborations and industrial partners Together Laboratory of Combustion processes new long-term R&D programme: ”Experimental and numerical research of combustion and plasma processes for improvement of energy generation technologies from renewable biofuel and reduction of environment pollution”. Scientific work, funded from budget assets: ”Synthesis of carbon coatings in argon-acetylene and argon-hydrogen-acetylene plasma and investigation of their properties”. COST CM0903 activity Utilisation of Biomass for Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals (UBIOCHEM). International project Research on formation regularities and properties of multifunctional metal oxide coatings formed by combined laser-plasma methods carried out under the Lithuanian- Belorussian bilateral cooperation programme. Main publications Grigaitienė V., Snapkauskienė V., Valatkevičius P., Tamošiūnas A., Valinčius V. Water vapor plasma technology for biomass conversion to synthetic gas, Catalysis today 2011. 167 (1) 135-140. Grigaitienė V., Tamošiūnas A., Valinčius V. Water vapour plasma generation for environmental purposes, Fresenius environmental bulletin, 2013. 22 (7a), p. 2069-2073. Tamošiūnas A., Grigaitienė V., Valatkevičius P. Creation of linear DC plasma generator for pyrolysis / gasification of organic materials, Nukleonika, 2011. 56 (2) 131-135. Tamošiūnas A., Grigaitienė V., Valatkevičius P., Valinčius V. Syngas production from hydrocarbon-containing gas in ambient of water vapor plasma, Catalysis today 2012. 196 (1) 81-85. Valinčius V., Grigaitienė V., Valatkevičius P., Tamošiūnas A. The simultaneous synthesis of hydrogen-rich gas and oxidation of fine metal particles in water vapour plasma, Problems of atomic science and technology. ISSN 1562-6016. 2013. Vol. 83, No. 1, p. 160-163.