Propane oxidation in a plasma torch of a low-current nonsteady-state plasmatron

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2 PART 2, 2012, Pages 535-542

  Korolev, Yury D ^a,b,c   Frants, Oleg B ^a   Landl, Nikolay V ^a   Kasyanov, Vladimir S ^a   Galanov, Sergey I ^a,b   Sidorova, Olga I ^b   Kim, Yongho ^d   Rosocha, Louis A ^d   Matveev, Igor B ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e Applied Plasma Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Glow to spark transition; Hydrocarbon partial oxidation; Plasma torches; Plasma assisted combustion

Indexed keywords

BURNING PROCESS; COMBUSTION SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER; EQUIVALENCE RATIOS; GLOW-TO-SPARK TRANSITION; HEAT POWER; HIGH POWER DENSITY; HYBRID CONCEPTS; LOW LEVEL; OXIDATION PROCESS; PER UNIT; PLASMATRONS; PRIMARY UNITS; PROPANE OXIDATION; SYN-GAS GENERATION;

FUEL SYSTEMS; HYDROCARBONS; OXIDATION; PROPANE; SYNTHESIS GAS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

PLASMA TORCHES;

EID: 84862802470     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2011.2176557     Document Type: Article

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