Abstract
The temperature of the high-power inductively coupled plasma jet is very high, and its temperature is difficult to measure directly. The heat flux becomes a thermodynamic characteristic to measure the plasma jet. The existing heat flux calculation method is based on the temperature change rate after the response time. The slug is required to stay in the high enthalpy jet area for a longer time. With the slug temperature reaching the melting point as the upper limit, the shorter the residence time, the greater the upper limit of the measured heat flux. In this paper, the first-order transient solution is added to the steady-state solution of temperature (the calculation equation of the existing method), which can shorten the response time. The shortening of the response time can reduce the residence time of the slug in the jet region, and the reduction in the residence time can increase the upper limit of the calorimeter heat flux measurement. This paper uses numerical simulation and experimental methods to verify that the steady-state solution method and the first-order transient solution method can obtain consistent heat flux results. Using the first-order transient solution method can reduce the residence time of the slug calorimeter in the jet region. According to the shortening of the residence time, the method of using the first-order transient solution can increase the upper limit of the heat flux measurement by more than 25%.
Highlights
A high-power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) jet is difficult to measure directly due to its high temperature.1–4 Heat flux is often an important thermodynamic parameter of plasma jets.3 There are many methods for measuring the heat flux,5 which are mainly divided into contact and non-contact types
According to the shortening of the residence time, the method of using the first-order transient solution can increase the upper limit of the heat flux measurement by more than 25%
The temperature data of the effective measurement time after the steady-state response time tr are fitted by Eq (9), and the heat flux is calculated by Eq (10)
Summary
A high-power inductively coupled plasma (ICP) jet is difficult to measure directly due to its high temperature. Heat flux is often an important thermodynamic parameter of plasma jets. There are many methods for measuring the heat flux, which are mainly divided into contact and non-contact types. The non-contact method can measure high enthalpy (and high heat flux) jets, but it has the disadvantage that the measurement results are not accurate enough. The calorimeter needs to stay in the central region of the jet for a period of time, and the heat flux is calculated according to the temperature change trend of the back of the slug during the residence time. The first-order transient solution is added to the steady-state solution of the temperature equation, which can greatly reduce the response time, that is, shorten the residence time, that is, increase the upper limit of the heat flux that can be measured.
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