Abstract
Plasma application for environmental improvement is desirable, and it is worthwhile to clarify the behavior of OH radicals in nonthermal plasma. Under atmospheric-pressure humid air, the time evolutions and spatial distribution of relative density and rotational temperature of OH radicals are measured in pulsed positive corona discharge using laser-induced fluorescence with a tunable optical parametric oscillator laser. The density of OH radicals generated by discharge when 28 kV is applied is estimated to be about 1×1015cm-3 at 3 μs after discharge. The OH density increases with humidity. The rotational temperature rises after discharge. The rate of temperature rise increases with humidity. This phenomenon arises from fast vibration-to-translation energy relaxation of H2O. The spatial distributions of OH rotational temperature indicate that the temperature rises in the secondary streamer channel.
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