Evaluation of pulsed streamer corona experiments to determine the O radical yield

The production of O* radicals in air by a pulsed streamer plasma is studied by integration of a large set of precise experimental data and the chemical kinetics of ozone production. The measured data comprise ozone production, plasma energy, streamer volume, streamer length, streamer velocity, humid...

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Published in:Journal of physics. D, Applied physics Applied physics, 2008-12, Vol.41 (23), p.234015-234015 (5)
Main Authors: van Heesch, E J M, Winands, G J J, Pemen, A J M
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:The production of O* radicals in air by a pulsed streamer plasma is studied by integration of a large set of precise experimental data and the chemical kinetics of ozone production. The measured data comprise ozone production, plasma energy, streamer volume, streamer length, streamer velocity, humidity and gas-flow rate. Instead of entering input parameters into a kinetic model to calculate the end products the opposite strategy is followed. Since the amount of end-products (ozone) is known from the measurements the model had to be applied in the reverse direction to determine the input parameters, i.e. the O* radical concentration.
ISSN:0022-3727
1361-6463
DOI:10.1088/0022-3727/41/23/234015