A gliding discharge in open air sustained by high-voltage resonant ac power supply

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 40, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 2843-2849

  Zhang, Cheng ^a   Shao, Tao ^a   Xu, Jiayu ^a   Ma, Hao ^a   Duan, Liwei ^b   Ren, Chengyan ^a   Yan, Ping ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b ACADEMY OF EQUIPMENT COMMAND AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Air flow; atmospheric air; gliding discharge; glowlike discharge; nonstable discharge; nonthermal plasma; resonant power supply; spark; stable discharge

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; ATMOSPHERIC AIR; GLOW-LIKE DISCHARGE; NON-STABLE; NONTHERMAL PLASMA; POWER SUPPLY;

AIR; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE;

ELECTRIC SPARKS;

EID: 84870059548     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2012.2208470     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. G. Fridman, A. D. Brooks, M. Balasubramanian, A. Fridman, A. Gutsol, V. N. Vasilets, H. Ayan, and G. Friedman, "Comparison of direct and indirect effects of non-thermal atmospheric-pressure plasma on bacteria," Plasma Process. Polymer, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 370-375, May 2007. (Pubitemid 46902308)
2. X. Lu, Q. Xiong, Z. Xiong, Y. Xian, F. Zhou, J. Hu, W. Gong, C. Zhou, Z. Tang, Z. Jiang, and Y. Pan, "Effect of nano- to millisecond pulse on dielectric barrier discharges," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 647-652, May 2009.
3. T. Shao, C. Zhang, H. Jiang, Z. Niu, P. Yan, and Y. Zhou, "Nanosecond repetitively pulsed discharges of point-plane gaps in air at atmospheric pressure," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1881-1888, Sep. 2011.
4. G. Wei, C. Ren, M. Qian, and Q. Nie, "Optical and electrical diagnostics of cold Ar atmospheric pressure plasma jet generated with a simple DBD configuration," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 9, pp. 1842-1848, Sep. 2011.
5. D. Yang,W.Wang, L. Jia, D. Nie, and H. Shi, "Production of atmospheric pressure diffuse nanosecond pulsed dielectric barrier discharge using the array needles-plate electrode in air," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 109, no. 7, p. 073308, Apr. 2011.
6. Y. Chen, J. Dickens, J. Mankowski, and M. Kristiansen, "Evaluation of a triggered 50 kV, 100 Hz, sub-ns jitter high pressure gas switch with pressure, trigger magnitude and gas temperature," IEEE Trans. Dielectr. Elect. Insul., vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 975-982, Aug. 2011.
7. S. M. Starikovskaia, "Plasma assisted ignition and combustion," J. Phys. D, Appl. Phys., vol. 39, no. 16, pp. R265-R299, Aug. 2006. (Pubitemid 44192005)
8. S. B. Leonov and D. A. Yarantsev, "Plasma-induced ignition and plasmaassisted combustion in high-speed flow," Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 132-138, Feb. 2007. (Pubitemid 46485493)
9. X. Lu, Q. Xiong, Z. Xiong, J. Hu, F. Zhou, W. Gong, Y. Xian, C. Zou, Z. Tang, Z. Jiang, and Y. Pan, "Propagation of an atmospheric pressure plasma plume," J. Appl. Phys., vol. 105, no. 4, p. 043304, Feb. 2009.
10. I. V. Adamovich, I. Choi, N. Jiang, J. Kim, S. Keshav, W. R. Lempert, E. Mintusov, M. Nishihara, M. Samimy, and M. Uddi, "Plasma assisted ignition and high-speed flow control: Non-thermal and thermal effects," Plasma Sources Sci. Technol., vol. 18, no. 3, p. 034018, Aug. 2009.
11. Z. Niu, T. Shao, C. Zhang, H. Jiang, C. Li, G. W, J. Tan, and P. Yan, "Atmospheric-pressure plasma jet produced by a unipolar nanosecond pulse generator in various gases," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2322-2323, Nov. 2011.
12. A. Fridman, S. Nester, L. A. Kennedy, A. Saveliev, and O. Mutaf-Yardimci, "Gliding arc gas discharge," Progr. Energy Combust. Sci., vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 211-231, Apr. 1998. (Pubitemid 128353318)
13. R. Burlica, M. J. Kirkpatrick, and B. R. Locke, "Formation of reactive species in gliding arc discharges with liquid water," J. Electrostat., vol. 64, no. 1, pp. 35-43, Jan. 2006. (Pubitemid 43024634)
14. C. S. Kalra, A. F. Gutsol, and A. A. Fridman, "Gliding arc discharges as a source of intermediate plasma for methane partial oxidation," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 32-41, Feb. 2005. (Pubitemid 40337279)
15. J. C. Sahas, A. H. Neto, A. C. P. Filho, H. S. Maciel, and P. T. Lacava, "Basic characteristics of gliding-arc discharges in air and natural gas," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 775-780, Feb. 2011.
16. A. Von Engel, R. Seeliger, and M. Steenbeck, "On the glow discharge at high pressure," Zeit Fuer Phys., vol. 85, pp. 144-160, 1933.
17. F. Richard, J. M. Cormier, S. Pellerin, and J. Chapelle, "Physical study of a gliding arc discharge," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 79, no. 5, pp. 2245-2250, Mar. 1996. (Pubitemid 126530561)
18. A. Czemichowski, "Gliding arc: Applications to engineering and environment control," Pure Appl. Chem., vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 1301-1310, 1994.
19. Y. D. Korolev, O. B. Frants, V. G. Geyman, N. V. Landl, and V. S. Kasyanov, "Low-current "gliding arc" in an air flow," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 3319-3325, Dec. 2011.
20. Y. D. Korolev, O. B. Frants, N. V. Landl, V. G. Geyman, and I. B. Matveev, "Glow-to-spark transitions in a plasma system for ignition and combustion control," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 35, no. 6, pp. 1651-1666, Dec. 2007.
21. W. Ding, F. Li, and L. Yang, "Atmospheric-pressure glow discharge sustained by a resonant power supply," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 37, no. 11, pp. 2207-2212, Nov. 2009.
22. W. Selerowicz, J. Piechna, T. Opalinska, and B. Ulejczyk, "Experimental investigation of the dynamics and space range of the gliding arc in threeelectrode system," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2866- 2867, Nov. 2011.
23. T. Xin, H. J. Gallon, and J. C. Whitehead, "Dynamic behavior of an atmospheric argon gliding arc plasma," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2900-2901, Nov. 2011.
24. H. Jiang, T. Shao, C. Zhang, Z. Niu, Y. Yu, P. Yan, and Y. Zhou, "Comparison of AC and nanosecond-pulse DBDs in atmospheric air," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 2076-2077, Nov. 2011.
25. Z. Fang, Y. Qiu, C. Zhang, and E. Kuffel, "Factors influencing the existence of the homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in air at atmospheric pressure," J. Phys. D, Appl. Phys., vol. 40, no. 5, pp. 1401-1407, Mar. 2007. (Pubitemid 46485741)
26. Y. P. Raizer, Gas Discharge Physics. Berlin, Germany: Springer-Verlag, 1991.
27. Y. D. Korolev, O. B. Frants, N. V. Landl, V. G. Geyman, and I. B. Matveev, "Nonsteady-state gas-discharge processes in plasmatron for combustion sustaining and hydrocarbon decomposition," IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci., vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 586-592, Apr. 2009.
28. J. Xu, C. Zhang, T. Shao, L. Duan, C. Ren, and P. Yan, "Experimental study on gas discharge excited by 60 kHz power supply with pin-to-pin electrode in atmospheric air," High Volt. Eng., vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1803- 1808, Jul. 2012 (in Chinese).