For the first time, experiments were carried out on the decomposition of carbon dioxide in a plasma torch maintained by continuous focused gyrotron radiation with a frequency of 263 GHz in an argon flow at atmospheric pressure. It is shown that, despite the decrease in the electron density by a factor of 5, when 3% carbon dioxide is added to the plasma-forming gas, it is possible to achieve its degree of conversion of 22% due to the nonequilibrium nature of maintaining the discharge. Thus, the prospects of using high-power electromagnetic radiation in the sub-terahertz range for solving plasma-chemical problems of the decomposition of highly stable molecules have been demonstrated. Keywords: microwave discharge, nonequilibrium plasma, gyrotron, subterahertz radiation, CO2 decomposition.
The possibility of converting methane into hydrogen using a high-frequency induction plasma torch at atmospheric pressure has been experimentally studied. The dependencies of the degree of methane conversion and the rate of hydrogen production were studied depending on the process conditions. It has been demonstrated that the degree of conversion of methane to hydrogen can reach values close to 100%.
In the developed waveguide plasmatron with combined gas influx, a nonequilibrium discharge maintained at atmospheric pressure by continuous microwave gyrotron radiation at 24 GHz was obtained and studied for the first time. It is shown that in the regime of argon discharge stabilization by carbon dioxide flow the temperature of electrons is 0.2-0.3 eV at gas temperature 1200-1500 K and the electron density does not exceed the cutoff value for the heating frequency in a wide power range.
This paper presents the results of an experimental study of the spatial structure of a microwave discharge maintained in an argon flow by gyrotron radiation in a continuous mode with a frequency of 24 GHz at atmospheric pressure. In the structure of the plasma plume, stationary filamentary channels are observed, elongated along the direction of the argon flow, regardless of the orientation of the external electric field of the wave, surrounded by a diffusion halo. Measurements of the electron density, vibrational and rotational temperatures of gas molecules in plasma filaments have been carried out. The role of gas-dynamic mechanisms responsible for the formation of the inhomogeneous static structure of the plasma torch and the maintenance of a substantially nonequilibrium distribution of temperature characteristics in the discharge is discussed.
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