Abstract
Numerical simulation of turbulent mixing process of polydisperse quartz particle (particle size distribution in the range of 0.1–0.4 mm) flow with Ar and Ar-H2 plasma generated by radio frequency inductively coupled plasma (RF-ICP) torch has been made. An approximate two-stage approach has been proposed to calculate the spatial–temporal distributions of temperature and resulting thermal stress in quartz particles during dynamic heating in polydisperse plasma flow. The influence of working gas compositions, particle size distributions, injection angle and flow rate of carrier gas on the thermal destruction conditions of quartz particles has been determined under different particle feed rates. It is found that all the solid quartz particles (0.1–0.4 mm) could be thermal destructed without overheating in RF-ICP torch system, when the hydrogen volume fraction in working gases is more than 1.5%–2% and particle feed rate is in a certain range. The values of the maximum and minimum feed rates have been determined under different hydrogen volume fractions. An optimal particle injection angle and flow rate of carrier gas is found around 50°–60° and 160–220 slpm, under which the value of maximum equivalent thermal stress in quartz particles is highest.
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