Low-Current Plasmatron as a Source of Nitrogen Oxide Molecules

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 40, Issue 11 PART1, 2012, Pages 2837-2842

  Korolev, Yury D ^a,b   Frants, Oleg B ^c   Landl, Nikolay V ^a,b   Suslov, Alexey I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF HIGH CURRENT ELECTRONICS   (Russian Federation)

^b TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL RESEARCH TOMSK POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Generation of nitrogen oxide molecules; glow to spark transition; low current plasmatron; plasma jet

Indexed keywords

AIR FLOW; AVERAGE CURRENTS; DISCHARGE POWER; EFFICIENT INTERACTION; GLOW-TO-SPARK TRANSITION; PLASMA COLUMNS; PLASMA PLUMES; PLASMATRONS;

AIR; ELECTRIC SPARKS; NITROGEN OXIDES; NOZZLE DESIGN; NOZZLES; PLASMA JETS; PLASMAS;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84870063935     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2012.2201755     Document Type: Article

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