Plasma-Assisted Reaction of Heterogeneous Al-H2O Mixture in High-Speed Swirl Flow

Abstract

.equilibrium plasmoid. This work is the continuation of the previous one 5-7 . The rate of this reaction may be increased up to factor 10 3 by non-equilibrium plasma. Active excited particles, radicals and ions are created by a non-equilibrium electrical discharge in swirl flow in plasma-chemical reactor (PCR). It is well-known that these particles can accelerate a creation of the chains in a reaction zone. High gas temperature in a plasma zone accelerates this reaction rate also. The main goal of this work is a design, manufacture and testing of the demo- PCR with hydrogen mass flow about of 0.1- 1G/s. The following tasks are studied in these experiments: 1. Study of the optimal parameters of a swirl flow in the PCR (component mass flow rates, flow velocity distribution, gas temperature distribution and so on). 2. Study of a stable electric discharge regimes in swirl gas flow. Optimization of power supply electric parameters. 3. Measurement of plasma parameters in the PCR. 4. Chemical analysis of the final species in this PCR. The parameters and characteristics of electric discharge, plasma and swirl flow are measured in this work. Minimal energy balance of hydrogen molecule creation will be measured in this PCR namely.