Stimulated condensation of nonsaturated vapors: a new effect in the nonequilibrium plasma and its application for air cleaning

Author

Bugaev, S.P. ; Kozyrev, A.V. ; Kuvshinov, V.A. ; Sochugov, N.S.

Author_Institution

Inst. of High-Current Electron., Acad. of Sci., Tomsk, Russia

Volume

2

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

965

Abstract

The phenomenon of stimulated condensation of nonsaturated vapors of organic compounds observed in recombining nonequilibrium plasma of atmospheric pressure pulsed discharges has been studied experimentally. It has been found that an aerosol is produced even at a partial pressure of vapors making up only 0.1-10% of the saturation pressure. The results of an investigation of aerosol characteristics are presented. It has been demonstrated that the harnessing of this phenomenon increases substantially the efficiency of the process of scrubbing air from organic impurity vapors

Keywords

air pollution control; condensation; discharges (electric); organic compounds; plasma applications; aerosol; air cleaning; air scrubbing; atmospheric pressure pulsed discharges; nonsaturated vapors; organic compounds; organic impurity vapors; recombining nonequilibrium plasma; stimulated condensation; Aerosols; Atmospheric-pressure plasmas; Electrodes; Hydrocarbons; Impurities; Plasma applications; Plasma chemistry; Plasma measurements; Plasma properties; Pulse transformers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Power Particle Beams, 1998. BEAMS '98. Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Haifa

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4287-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BEAMS.1998.817013

Filename

817013