Experimental study on the influence of gas flow rate on the plasma plume of N-APPJ

Abstract

Abstract In order to explore the effect of the gas flow rate on the plasma plume, a quantitative study of the effect of the gas flow rate on the atmospheric pressure non-equilibrium plasma plume length was carried out using two different electrode structures. The results show that plasma plume length of up to 80.2 mm can be achieved in atmospheric condition outside the tube. The plasma plume length of the indented tube is smaller than that of the straight tube for the same argon gas flow rate, discharge voltage and axial distance between electrodes, and the effect of the argon flow rate on the plasma plume length is more obvious for the straight tube than for the indented tube. The plasma plume length of the straight-through tube tends to increase and then decrease as the argon flow rate increases, and the variation of the plasma plume length at an axial electrode distance of 0 mm is significantly greater than that of other electrode distance conditions. At the same argon flow rate, the maximum plasma plume length tends to increase and then decrease with the argon flow rate and increases with the axial distance of the electrodes.