Transport Coefficients of Ar/C/H/O/N Systems Thermal Plasma at Atmospheric Pressure

Abstract

The transport coefficients of thermal plasma composed of Ar/C/H/O/N elements are presented in the temperature range from 1000 to 15000 K. Several chemical composition calculations with different proportions of the elements lead us to retain 35 major species. We have characterized 595 interactions the between these species and derived the collision integrals necessary for the calculation of transport coefficients by Chapman-Enskog method. The following approximation orders have been used: 3rd for electrical conductivity and electrons translation thermal conductivity, 2nd for heavy particles translation thermal conductivity and 1st for viscosity, reaction and internal thermal conductivity. The development of thermal plasma processes lead to the use of plasma gases or gases mixtures more and more complexes. If data concerning the transport coefficients of simple gases like argon, hydrogen, oxygen or nitrogen or some binary mixtures like argon-hydrogen, argon-oxygen or oxygen-nitrogen can be early found in literature, those concerning ternary mixtures or more are not available. Ar/H/O and N brought together and C is added permitting to take into account hydrocarbons. First ours results for simple gases or gases mixtures are compared with recently published data of the literature and finally we present the transport coefficients of oxygen-nitrogen-methane, and argon-steam mixtures.