Journal article
Gliding arc in tornado using a reverse vortex flow
Review of scientific instruments, v 76(2), pp 025110-025110-7
Feb 2005
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Abstract
The present article reports a new gliding arc (GA) system using a reverse vortex flow (“tornado”) in a cylindrical reactor (gliding arc in tornado, or GAT), as used to preserve the main advantages of traditional GA systems and overcome their main drawbacks. The primary advantages of traditional GA systems retained in the present GAT are the possibility to generate transitional plasma and to avoid considerable electrode erosion. In contrast to a traditional GA, the new GAT system ensures much more uniform gas treatment and has a significantly larger gas residence time in the reactor. The present article also describes the design of the new reactor and its stable operation regime when the variation of GAT current is very small. These features are understood to be very important for most viable applications. Additionally the GAT provides near-perfect thermal insulation from the reactor wall, indicating that the present GAT does not require the reactor wall to be constructed of high-temperature materials. The new GAT system, with its unique properties such as a high level of nonequilibrium and a large residence time, looks very promising for many industrial applications including fuel conversion, carbon dioxide conversion to carbon monoxide and oxygen, surface treatment, waste treatment, flame stabilization, hydrogen sulfide treatment, etc.
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- Title
- Gliding arc in tornado using a reverse vortex flow
- Creators
- Chiranjeev S. Kalra - Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Young I. Cho - Drexel UniversityAlexànder Gutsol - Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics, Drexel Plasma Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Alexander Fridman - Drexel UniversityTecle S. Rufael - ChevronTexaco Energy Research and Technology Company, Houston, Texas 77042
- Publication Details
- Review of scientific instruments, v 76(2), pp 025110-025110-7
- Publisher
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000226738400066
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-13744261504
- Other Identifier
- 991019167696004721
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- Industry collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Instruments & Instrumentation
- Physics, Applied