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EHD-driven mass transport enhancement in surface dielectric barrier discharges
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Surface dielectric barrier discharges (S-DBDs) have received renewed attention in recent years for their potential application in emerging biomedical, environmental and agricultural applications. In most of these applications, the plasma is not in direct contact with the substrate being treated and the transport of reactive species from the plasma to the substrate is typically assumed to be controlled by diffusion. Here, we demonstrate that generally this is not the case and that electrohydrodynamic (EHD) forces can produce jets that enhance the delivery of these species, thereby influencing the efficacy of the S-DBD device. In particular, we have studied the degradation of potassium indigotrisulfonate solutions exposed to S-DBDs generated in devices with annular electrodes of diameters varying between 10 mm and 50 mm. All the devices were driven at constant linear power density (watts per cm of plasma length) and although local plasma properties remained the same in all the devices, a three-fold efficacy enhancement was observed for devices of diameter ∼30 mm due to EHD effects.
- Subjects :
- 010302 applied physics
Chemistry
business.industry
Analytical chemistry
Atmospheric pressure plasma
Transport
Atmospheric-pressure plasma
Dielectric
Substrate (electronics)
Plasma
Condensed Matter Physics
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
0103 physical sciences
Electrode
Optoelectronics
DBD
Electrohydrodynamics
Diffusion (business)
business
EHD
Power density
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....741df72cc0b395278ba24e0d73aa4dd5