Nonsteady-state gas-discharge processes in plasmatron for combustion sustaining and hydrocarbon decomposition

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4 PART 2, 2009, Pages 586-592

  Korolev, Yury D ^a,b   Frants, Oleg B ^a   Landl, Nikolay V ^a   Geyman, Vladimir G ^a   Matveev, Igor B ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c Applied Plasma Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Combustion stabilization; Glow to spark transition; Hydrocarbon partial oxidation; Plasma torches

Indexed keywords

A THERMALS; DISCHARGE CURRENTS; DISCHARGE FEATURES; DISCHARGE PHENOMENON; DISCHARGE PROCESS; DISCHARGE REGIMES; ELECTRODE SYSTEMS; GLOW-TO-SPARK TRANSITION; HIGH CURRENTS; HYDROCARBON MIXTURES; PLASMATRON; PLASMATRONS; RANDOM TRANSITIONS; STATE DISCHARGES;

COMBUSTION; ELECTRIC SPARKS; GLOW DISCHARGES; NOZZLES; OXIDATION; PLASMA JETS; PLASMA TORCHES; PLASMAS; SMOKE; STABILIZATION; THERMOCHEMISTRY;

HYDROCARBONS;

EID: 67349263918     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2009.2014453     Document Type: Article

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