2012
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0344
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Abstract: Non-equilibrium plasma demonstrates great potential to control ultra-lean, ultrafast, low-temperature flames and to become an extremely promising technology for a wide range of applications, including aviation gas turbine engines, piston engines, RAMjets, SCRAMjets and detonation initiation for pulsed detonation engines. The analysis of discharge processes shows that the discharge energy can be deposited into the desired internal degrees of freedom of molecules when varying the reduced electric field, E/n, at … Show more

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“…4,5 Sinibaldi of the United States Naval Postgraduate School and Wang et al of Southern California State University 6,7 conducted in-depth experimental studies on the detonation wave formation in the transient plasma ignition (TPI) technique and noted that in comparison with conventional ignition devices, the TPI technique effectively shortens the time and distance of the DDT (the transition from slow combustion to detonation). Starikovskiy et al 8 of Princeton University also studied the influence of plasma on the DDT process. The experiment indicated that the energy of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted detonation ignition is lower than that for electric initiation by an order of magnitude and showed that the intervention of low-power discharge on the DDT process includes the two aspects of slowly moving flame formation and gas dynamic disturbance.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…4,5 Sinibaldi of the United States Naval Postgraduate School and Wang et al of Southern California State University 6,7 conducted in-depth experimental studies on the detonation wave formation in the transient plasma ignition (TPI) technique and noted that in comparison with conventional ignition devices, the TPI technique effectively shortens the time and distance of the DDT (the transition from slow combustion to detonation). Starikovskiy et al 8 of Princeton University also studied the influence of plasma on the DDT process. The experiment indicated that the energy of non-equilibrium plasma-assisted detonation ignition is lower than that for electric initiation by an order of magnitude and showed that the intervention of low-power discharge on the DDT process includes the two aspects of slowly moving flame formation and gas dynamic disturbance.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Plasma-assisted combustion is a promising technique to improve engine efficiency, reduce emissions and enhance fuel reforming [1]. Ignition and combustion control using cold and non-thermal plasmas appearing in microwave discharges has become a major topic of interest [11], [12]. Advances in microwave sources, experimental diagnostic techniques, numerical simulation and computing power have allowed significant progress in the understanding of plasma-assisted ignition and combustion.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The idea of using plasma methods of fuel ignition is based on non-equilibrium generation of chemically active particles, accelerating the combustion process. The methods of generation of chemically active discharge plasma and mechanisms of ignition and combustion controlled by non-equilibrium plasma are provided in [12]. Mechanisms for the acceleration of combustion under the action of a non-equilibrium plasma are actively discussed including the generation of atomic oxygen and other chemical radicals [13], development of molecules of singlet delta-oxygen [14], chain ion-molecular reactions with intermediate radicals [15].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, NRP discharges have shown much promise in enhancing the chemical kinetics in plasma-assisted combustion applications in order to improve ignition, control combustion instabilities, and extend lean blow-off limits [11,12]. The improved ignition aspect of these discharges has already been applied to pulse detonation combustors to reduce the run-up time to DDT [13][14][15][16].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%