Numerical study of the effect of water content on OH production in a pulsed-dc atmospheric pressure helium–air plasma jet.

Autor: Mu-Yang Qian, Cong-Ying Yang, Zhen-dong Wang, Xiao-Chang Chen, San-Qiu Liu, De-Zhen Wang
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Zdroj: Chinese Physics B; Jan2016, Vol. 25 Issue 1, p1-1, 1p
Abstrakt: A numerical study of the effect of water content on OH production in a pulsed-dc atmospheric pressure helium–air plasma jet is presented. The generation and loss mechanisms of the OH radicals in a positive half-cycle of the applied voltage are studied and discussed. It is found that the peak OH density increases with water content in air (varying from 0% to 1%) and reaches 6.3×1018 m−3 when the water content is 1%. Besides, as the water content increases from 0.01% to 1%, the space-averaged reaction rate of three-body recombination increases dramatically and is comparable to those of main OH generation reactions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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