Flexible surface micro-discharge plasma is a non-thermal plasma technique used for treating wounds in a painless way, with significant efficacy for chronic or hard-to-heal wounds. In this study, a confined space was d...Flexible surface micro-discharge plasma is a non-thermal plasma technique used for treating wounds in a painless way, with significant efficacy for chronic or hard-to-heal wounds. In this study, a confined space was designed to simulate wound conditions, with gelatin used to simulate wound tissue. The distinction between open and confined spaces was explored, and the effects of temperature, humidity, discharge power and the gap size within the confined space on the plasma characteristics were analyzed. It was found that temperature, humidity and discharge power are important factors that affect the concentration distribution of active components and the mode transition between ozone and nitrogen oxides. Compared to open space, the concentration of ozone in confined space was relatively lower, which facilitated the formation of nitrogen oxides. In open space, the discharge was dominated by ozone initially. As the temperature,humidity and discharge power increased, nitrogen oxides in the gas-phase products were gradually detected. In confined space, nitrogen oxides can be detected at an early stage and at much higher concentrations than ozone concentration. Furthermore, as the gap of the confined space decreased, the concentration of ozone was observed to decrease while that of nitrate increased, and the rate of this concentration change was further accelerated at higher temperature and higher power. It was shown that ozone concentration decreased from 0.11 to 0.03 μmol and the nitrate concentration increased from 20.5 to 24.5 μmol when the spacing in the confined space was reduced from 5 to 1 mm, the temperature of the external discharge was controlled at 40 ℃, and the discharge power was 12 W. In summary, this study reveals the formation and transformation mechanisms of active substances in air surface micro-discharge plasma within confined space, providing foundational data for its medical applications.展开更多
Atmospheric pressure micro-discharges in helium gas with a mixture of 0.5%water vapor between two pin electrodes are generated with nanosecond overvoltage pulses.The temporal and spatial characteristics of the dischar...Atmospheric pressure micro-discharges in helium gas with a mixture of 0.5%water vapor between two pin electrodes are generated with nanosecond overvoltage pulses.The temporal and spatial characteristics of the discharges are investigated by means of time-resolved imaging and optical emission spectroscopy with respect to the discharge morphology,gas temperature,electron density,and excited species.The evolution of micro-discharges is captured by intensified CCD camera and electrical properties.The gas temperature is diagnosed by a two-temperature fit to the ro-vibrational OH(A^(2)Σ^(+)–X^П(2),0–0)emission band and is found to remain low at 425 K during the discharge pulses.The profile of electron density performed by the Stark broadening of Ha 656.1-nm and He I 667.8-nm lines is uniform across the discharge gap at the initial of discharge and reaches as high as 10^(23)m^(-3).The excited species of He,OH,and H show different spatio-temporal behaviors from each other by the measurement of their emission intensities,which are discussed qualitatively in regard of their plasma kinetics.展开更多
This paper presents a numerical simulation of DC glow discharge at 2 Torr(1 Torr=1.33322×10~2 Pa)with a microhollow anode,using a two-dimensional(2D)PIC/MCC code to explore the impact of the hollow anode structur...This paper presents a numerical simulation of DC glow discharge at 2 Torr(1 Torr=1.33322×10~2 Pa)with a microhollow anode,using a two-dimensional(2D)PIC/MCC code to explore the impact of the hollow anode structure on discharge characteristics.Simulation results show that the plasma density in the anode channel decreases exponentially along the x-direction towards the outlet while the electric potential decreases linearly.The electron temperature,derived from the relationship between density and electric potential,shows a good agreement with the calculated temperature.The potential peak at the inlet,along with the grounded anode,forms a transverse potential well that draws electrons toward the center of the channel.The x-direction electric field,generated by the potential difference between the inlet and outlet of the anode,directs electrons toward the inlet of the anode.Low-energy electrons are confined within the potential well,while very few high-energy electrons outlet the channel.The hollow anode structure serves as a collimator for electrons,leading to an increment of moderate-velocity electron flux in the anode channel.Shortening the anode leads to a slower rate of density decrease,resulting in a higher density at the outlet.展开更多
As a popular approach to producing atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma,dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)has been extensively used in various application fields.In this paper,DBD with wavy dielectric layers is nume...As a popular approach to producing atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma,dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)has been extensively used in various application fields.In this paper,DBD with wavy dielectric layers is numerically simulated in atmospheric pressure helium mixed with trace nitrogen based on a fluid model.With varying relative position(phase difference(Δφ))of the wavy surfaces,there is a positive discharge and a negative discharge per voltage cycle,each of which consists of a pulse stage and a hump stage.For the pulse stage,maximal current increases with increasingΔφ.Results show that DBD with the wavy surfaces appears as discrete micro-discharges(MDs),which are self-organized to different patterns with varyingΔφ.The MDs are vertical and uniformly-spaced withΔφ=0,which are self-organized in pairs withΔφ=π/4.These MD pairs are merged into some bright wide MDs withΔφ=π/2.In addition,narrow MDs appear between tilted wide MDs withΔφ=3π/4.WithΔφ=π,the pattern is composed of wide and narrow MDs,which are vertical and appear alternately.To elucidate the formation mechanism of the patterns with differentΔφ,temporal evolutions of electron density and electric field are investigated for the positive discharge.Moreover,surface charge on the wavy dielectric layers has also been compared with differentΔφ.展开更多
Nanosecond pulsed discharges at atmospheric pressure in a pin-to-pin electrode configuration are well reproducible in time and space, which is beneficial to the fundamentals and applications of low-temperature plasmas...Nanosecond pulsed discharges at atmospheric pressure in a pin-to-pin electrode configuration are well reproducible in time and space, which is beneficial to the fundamentals and applications of low-temperature plasmas. In this experiment, the discharges in helium(He) and He with 2.3%water vapor(H_(2)O) are driven by a series of 10 ns overvoltage pulses(~13 k V). Special attention is paid to the spectral characteristics obtained in the center of discharges by time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy. It is found that in helium, the emission of atomic and molecular helium during the afterglow is more intense than that in the active discharge, while in the He+2.3%H_(2)O mixture, helium emission is only observed during the discharge pulse and the molecular helium emission disappears. In addition, the emissions of OH(A-X) and Hα present similar behavior that increases sharply during the falling edge of the voltage pulse as the electrons cool down rapidly. The gas temperature is set to remain low at 540 K by fitting the OH(A-X) band. A comparative study on the emission of radiative species(He, He_(2), OH and H)is performed between these two discharge cases to derive their main production mechanisms. In both cases, the dominant primary ion is He^(+) at the onset of discharges, but their He^(+) charge transfer processes are quite different. Based on these experimental data and a qualitative discussion on the discharge kinetics, with regard to the present discharge conditions, it is shown that the electron-assisted three-body recombination processes appear to be the significant sources of radiative OH and H species in high-density plasmas.展开更多
This research mainly describes the generation and diagnosis of plasma using a wire-plate discharge device driven by different power supplies,aimed at investigating the effect of driving source parameters on micro-disc...This research mainly describes the generation and diagnosis of plasma using a wire-plate discharge device driven by different power supplies,aimed at investigating the effect of driving source parameters on micro-discharge induced by a corona.The influence of parameters such as waveform,duty ratio and bias voltage on discharge characteristics was explored preliminarily.Experiment results show that the determination of volt-ampere characteristics under different driving source waveforms indicates that the application of square and pulse waveforms shows great advantages over that of sawtooth and sinusoidal waveforms.Similarly,the photo-thermal effects of the system were investigated by comparing the high-voltage electrode temperature and relative emission intensity of N_(2)(C^(3)П_(u)→B^(3)П_(g),0–0,337 nm),where square and pulse waveforms also achieved better performance.But the pulse waveform had a slight advantage over the square waveform in terms of energy conversion.Further,investigations of the duty ratio and bias voltage applied on the pulse waveform were conducted,and the results indicate that the duty ratio could effectively improve the discharge power and thermal effect to a certain extent;however,the application of bias voltage on the pulse signal had little influence on the discharge power and thermal effect.展开更多
Recently,packed-bed discharge plasma technologies have been widely studied for treatment of volatile organic compounds(VOCs),due to the good performance in improving the degradation and mineralization of VOCs.In this ...Recently,packed-bed discharge plasma technologies have been widely studied for treatment of volatile organic compounds(VOCs),due to the good performance in improving the degradation and mineralization of VOCs.In this paper,a coaxial cylindrical dielectric barrier discharge reactor packed with porous material of micron-sized pores was used for degradation of benzene,and the discharge characteristics and ozone generation characteristics were studied.When the discharge length was 12 cm and the filling length was 5 cm,the packed particles in the discharge area significantly increased the number of micro-discharges,and the current amplitude and density increased with the pore size of packed particles,but the discharge power and ozone concentration showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.The discharge power and ozone production reached the maximum when the size of pore former was 75μm,correspondingly,the degradation efficiency of benzene was the highest.展开更多
We report on the results of numerical models of the(i)initial growth and(ii)steady state phases of atmospheric-pressure homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in argon.We employ our new inhouse code called Py DBD,wh...We report on the results of numerical models of the(i)initial growth and(ii)steady state phases of atmospheric-pressure homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in argon.We employ our new inhouse code called Py DBD,which solves continuity equations for both particles and energy,shows exceptional stability,is accelerated by adaptive time stepping and is openly available to the scientific community.Modeling argon plasma is numerically challenging due to the lower speeds of more inertial ions compared to more commonly modeled neon and helium,but its common use for plasma jets in medicine makes its modeling compelling.Py DBD is here applied to modeling two setups:(i)the exponential growth from natural electron-ion seeds(onset phase)until saturation is reached and(ii)the multiple current pulses that naturally appear during the steady state phase.We find that the time required for the onset phase,when the plasma density grows from 10^(9)m^(-3)to 10^(17)m^(-3),varies from 80μs at 4.5 k V down to a fewμs above 6.5 k V,for voltage frequency f=80 k Hz and gap width d_(g)=0.9 mm.At the steady state,our model reproduces two previously observed features of the current in dielectric barrier discharge reactors:(1)an oscillatory behavior associated to the capacitative character of the circuit and(2)several(N_(p))current pulses occurring every half sinusoidal cycle.We show that the oscillations are present during the exponential growth,while current pulses appear approaching the steady state.After each micro-discharge,the gas voltage decreases abruptly and charged particles rapidly accumulate at the dielectric boundaries,causing avalanches of charged particles near the reactor boundaries.Finally,we run a parametric study finding that N_(p)increases linearly with voltage amplitude V_(amp),is inversely proportional to dielectric gap d_(g)and decreases when voltage frequency f increases.The code developed for this publication is freely available at the address https://github.com/gabersyd/PyDBD.展开更多
A new approach is developed to inspect the internal pressure within the vacuum switchgear by no means of magnet-exciting coil, micro-discharge threshold voltage Ud and field emission threshold voltage Ud all of which ...A new approach is developed to inspect the internal pressure within the vacuum switchgear by no means of magnet-exciting coil, micro-discharge threshold voltage Ud and field emission threshold voltage Ud all of which are available in laboratory. Experimental results show that internal pressure is a function of the ratio of the micro-discharge threshold voltage to the field emission threshold voltage i.e., Ud/Ue. By this method, the internal pressure in the range of 10^0-10^-4 Pa within vacuum chambers can be inspected without magnet-exciting coil which is required in conventional magnetron discharge method.展开更多
基金supported by Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province (No. 1003016001)。
文摘Flexible surface micro-discharge plasma is a non-thermal plasma technique used for treating wounds in a painless way, with significant efficacy for chronic or hard-to-heal wounds. In this study, a confined space was designed to simulate wound conditions, with gelatin used to simulate wound tissue. The distinction between open and confined spaces was explored, and the effects of temperature, humidity, discharge power and the gap size within the confined space on the plasma characteristics were analyzed. It was found that temperature, humidity and discharge power are important factors that affect the concentration distribution of active components and the mode transition between ozone and nitrogen oxides. Compared to open space, the concentration of ozone in confined space was relatively lower, which facilitated the formation of nitrogen oxides. In open space, the discharge was dominated by ozone initially. As the temperature,humidity and discharge power increased, nitrogen oxides in the gas-phase products were gradually detected. In confined space, nitrogen oxides can be detected at an early stage and at much higher concentrations than ozone concentration. Furthermore, as the gap of the confined space decreased, the concentration of ozone was observed to decrease while that of nitrate increased, and the rate of this concentration change was further accelerated at higher temperature and higher power. It was shown that ozone concentration decreased from 0.11 to 0.03 μmol and the nitrate concentration increased from 20.5 to 24.5 μmol when the spacing in the confined space was reduced from 5 to 1 mm, the temperature of the external discharge was controlled at 40 ℃, and the discharge power was 12 W. In summary, this study reveals the formation and transformation mechanisms of active substances in air surface micro-discharge plasma within confined space, providing foundational data for its medical applications.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.51806186)the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China(Grant No.20KJB140025)+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,China(Grant No.BK20181050)the Scientific Research Project for the Introduction Talent of Yancheng Institute of Technology(Grant No.XJR2020)。
文摘Atmospheric pressure micro-discharges in helium gas with a mixture of 0.5%water vapor between two pin electrodes are generated with nanosecond overvoltage pulses.The temporal and spatial characteristics of the discharges are investigated by means of time-resolved imaging and optical emission spectroscopy with respect to the discharge morphology,gas temperature,electron density,and excited species.The evolution of micro-discharges is captured by intensified CCD camera and electrical properties.The gas temperature is diagnosed by a two-temperature fit to the ro-vibrational OH(A^(2)Σ^(+)–X^П(2),0–0)emission band and is found to remain low at 425 K during the discharge pulses.The profile of electron density performed by the Stark broadening of Ha 656.1-nm and He I 667.8-nm lines is uniform across the discharge gap at the initial of discharge and reaches as high as 10^(23)m^(-3).The excited species of He,OH,and H show different spatio-temporal behaviors from each other by the measurement of their emission intensities,which are discussed qualitatively in regard of their plasma kinetics.
基金Project partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12275060 and12075223)the Fund from Frontier Science Center for Interaction between Space Environment and Matter(Grant No.5740401024)。
文摘This paper presents a numerical simulation of DC glow discharge at 2 Torr(1 Torr=1.33322×10~2 Pa)with a microhollow anode,using a two-dimensional(2D)PIC/MCC code to explore the impact of the hollow anode structure on discharge characteristics.Simulation results show that the plasma density in the anode channel decreases exponentially along the x-direction towards the outlet while the electric potential decreases linearly.The electron temperature,derived from the relationship between density and electric potential,shows a good agreement with the calculated temperature.The potential peak at the inlet,along with the grounded anode,forms a transverse potential well that draws electrons toward the center of the channel.The x-direction electric field,generated by the potential difference between the inlet and outlet of the anode,directs electrons toward the inlet of the anode.Low-energy electrons are confined within the potential well,while very few high-energy electrons outlet the channel.The hollow anode structure serves as a collimator for electrons,leading to an increment of moderate-velocity electron flux in the anode channel.Shortening the anode leads to a slower rate of density decrease,resulting in a higher density at the outlet.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.12375250,11875121,51977057,11805013)the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province,China(Grant Nos.A2020201025 and A2022201036)+3 种基金the Hebei Province Optoelectronic Information Materials Laboratory Performance Subsidy Fund Project(Grant No.22567634H)the Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists of Hebei Province,China(Grant No.A2012201045)the Natural Science Interdisciplinary Research Program of Hebei University(Grant Nos.DXK201908 and DXK202011)the Post-graduate’s Innovation Fund Project of Hebei University(Grant No.HBU2022bs004)。
文摘As a popular approach to producing atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma,dielectric barrier discharge(DBD)has been extensively used in various application fields.In this paper,DBD with wavy dielectric layers is numerically simulated in atmospheric pressure helium mixed with trace nitrogen based on a fluid model.With varying relative position(phase difference(Δφ))of the wavy surfaces,there is a positive discharge and a negative discharge per voltage cycle,each of which consists of a pulse stage and a hump stage.For the pulse stage,maximal current increases with increasingΔφ.Results show that DBD with the wavy surfaces appears as discrete micro-discharges(MDs),which are self-organized to different patterns with varyingΔφ.The MDs are vertical and uniformly-spaced withΔφ=0,which are self-organized in pairs withΔφ=π/4.These MD pairs are merged into some bright wide MDs withΔφ=π/2.In addition,narrow MDs appear between tilted wide MDs withΔφ=3π/4.WithΔφ=π,the pattern is composed of wide and narrow MDs,which are vertical and appear alternately.To elucidate the formation mechanism of the patterns with differentΔφ,temporal evolutions of electron density and electric field are investigated for the positive discharge.Moreover,surface charge on the wavy dielectric layers has also been compared with differentΔφ.
基金the funding provided by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.12065019)Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions of China (No. 20KJB140025)+1 种基金the Open Fund of the Key Laboratory for Advanced Technology in Environmental Protection of Jiangsu Province(No. JBGS032)the Scientific Research Project for the Introduction Talent of Yancheng Institute of Technology(Nos. XJR2020031 and XJR2021069)。
文摘Nanosecond pulsed discharges at atmospheric pressure in a pin-to-pin electrode configuration are well reproducible in time and space, which is beneficial to the fundamentals and applications of low-temperature plasmas. In this experiment, the discharges in helium(He) and He with 2.3%water vapor(H_(2)O) are driven by a series of 10 ns overvoltage pulses(~13 k V). Special attention is paid to the spectral characteristics obtained in the center of discharges by time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy. It is found that in helium, the emission of atomic and molecular helium during the afterglow is more intense than that in the active discharge, while in the He+2.3%H_(2)O mixture, helium emission is only observed during the discharge pulse and the molecular helium emission disappears. In addition, the emissions of OH(A-X) and Hα present similar behavior that increases sharply during the falling edge of the voltage pulse as the electrons cool down rapidly. The gas temperature is set to remain low at 540 K by fitting the OH(A-X) band. A comparative study on the emission of radiative species(He, He_(2), OH and H)is performed between these two discharge cases to derive their main production mechanisms. In both cases, the dominant primary ion is He^(+) at the onset of discharges, but their He^(+) charge transfer processes are quite different. Based on these experimental data and a qualitative discussion on the discharge kinetics, with regard to the present discharge conditions, it is shown that the electron-assisted three-body recombination processes appear to be the significant sources of radiative OH and H species in high-density plasmas.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.51777165)the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Nos.2018YFF01010804 and 2016YFC0801200)
文摘This research mainly describes the generation and diagnosis of plasma using a wire-plate discharge device driven by different power supplies,aimed at investigating the effect of driving source parameters on micro-discharge induced by a corona.The influence of parameters such as waveform,duty ratio and bias voltage on discharge characteristics was explored preliminarily.Experiment results show that the determination of volt-ampere characteristics under different driving source waveforms indicates that the application of square and pulse waveforms shows great advantages over that of sawtooth and sinusoidal waveforms.Similarly,the photo-thermal effects of the system were investigated by comparing the high-voltage electrode temperature and relative emission intensity of N_(2)(C^(3)П_(u)→B^(3)П_(g),0–0,337 nm),where square and pulse waveforms also achieved better performance.But the pulse waveform had a slight advantage over the square waveform in terms of energy conversion.Further,investigations of the duty ratio and bias voltage applied on the pulse waveform were conducted,and the results indicate that the duty ratio could effectively improve the discharge power and thermal effect to a certain extent;however,the application of bias voltage on the pulse signal had little influence on the discharge power and thermal effect.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51977024,21577011)。
文摘Recently,packed-bed discharge plasma technologies have been widely studied for treatment of volatile organic compounds(VOCs),due to the good performance in improving the degradation and mineralization of VOCs.In this paper,a coaxial cylindrical dielectric barrier discharge reactor packed with porous material of micron-sized pores was used for degradation of benzene,and the discharge characteristics and ozone generation characteristics were studied.When the discharge length was 12 cm and the filling length was 5 cm,the packed particles in the discharge area significantly increased the number of micro-discharges,and the current amplitude and density increased with the pore size of packed particles,but the discharge power and ozone concentration showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing.The discharge power and ozone production reached the maximum when the size of pore former was 75μm,correspondingly,the degradation efficiency of benzene was the highest.
基金funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents,project LEQSF(2014-17)-RD-A-14。
文摘We report on the results of numerical models of the(i)initial growth and(ii)steady state phases of atmospheric-pressure homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in argon.We employ our new inhouse code called Py DBD,which solves continuity equations for both particles and energy,shows exceptional stability,is accelerated by adaptive time stepping and is openly available to the scientific community.Modeling argon plasma is numerically challenging due to the lower speeds of more inertial ions compared to more commonly modeled neon and helium,but its common use for plasma jets in medicine makes its modeling compelling.Py DBD is here applied to modeling two setups:(i)the exponential growth from natural electron-ion seeds(onset phase)until saturation is reached and(ii)the multiple current pulses that naturally appear during the steady state phase.We find that the time required for the onset phase,when the plasma density grows from 10^(9)m^(-3)to 10^(17)m^(-3),varies from 80μs at 4.5 k V down to a fewμs above 6.5 k V,for voltage frequency f=80 k Hz and gap width d_(g)=0.9 mm.At the steady state,our model reproduces two previously observed features of the current in dielectric barrier discharge reactors:(1)an oscillatory behavior associated to the capacitative character of the circuit and(2)several(N_(p))current pulses occurring every half sinusoidal cycle.We show that the oscillations are present during the exponential growth,while current pulses appear approaching the steady state.After each micro-discharge,the gas voltage decreases abruptly and charged particles rapidly accumulate at the dielectric boundaries,causing avalanches of charged particles near the reactor boundaries.Finally,we run a parametric study finding that N_(p)increases linearly with voltage amplitude V_(amp),is inversely proportional to dielectric gap d_(g)and decreases when voltage frequency f increases.The code developed for this publication is freely available at the address https://github.com/gabersyd/PyDBD.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50377024)
文摘A new approach is developed to inspect the internal pressure within the vacuum switchgear by no means of magnet-exciting coil, micro-discharge threshold voltage Ud and field emission threshold voltage Ud all of which are available in laboratory. Experimental results show that internal pressure is a function of the ratio of the micro-discharge threshold voltage to the field emission threshold voltage i.e., Ud/Ue. By this method, the internal pressure in the range of 10^0-10^-4 Pa within vacuum chambers can be inspected without magnet-exciting coil which is required in conventional magnetron discharge method.
