Experimental study on the discharge characteristics of high-voltage nanosecond pulsed discharges and its effect on the ignition and combustion processes

J Tian, Y Xiong, Z Liu, L Wang, Y Wang, W Yin… - Applied Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium plasma has been proven to expand ignition limits and enhance
combustion. This paper uses high-voltage nanosecond pulsed discharge (NPD) to generate …

A phenomenological model for plasma-assisted combustion with NRP discharges in methane-air mixtures: PACMIND

N Barléon, L Cheng, B Cuenot, O Vermorel - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
The recent advances in plasma-assisted combustion must now be strengthened through
high-fidelity numerical simulations. However, detailed plasma-combustion coupled …

Ignition enhancement and NOx formation of NH3/air mixtures by non-equilibrium plasma discharge

X Mao, H Zhong, N Liu, Z Wang, Y Ju - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
This work computationally studies plasma assisted low temperature NH 3/air ignition and
NO x formation in a repetitively-pulsed nanosecond discharge at atmospheric pressure by …

Accumulation effect of active species in atmospheric-pressure plasma jet driven by nanosecond high-voltage pulses with MHz pulse repetition rate

B Huang, C Zhang, C Zhang… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
With respect to successful applications of pulsed power in gas discharges, the enhanced
generation of desired active species and control of plasma parameters as required are …

Plasma thermal-chemical instability of low-temperature dimethyl ether oxidation in a nanosecond-pulsed dielectric barrier discharge

H Zhong, X Yang, X Mao, MN Shneider… - Plasma Sources …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasma stability in reactive mixtures is critical for various applications from plasma-assisted
combustion to gas conversion. To generate stable and uniform plasmas and control the …

Effects of electrodes and imposed flow on forced ignition in laminar premixed hydrogen/air mixtures with large Lewis number

X Chen, S Xie, H Böttler, A Scholtissek, W Han… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - Elsevier
Compared to quiescent premixed reactants, forced ignition of flowing/turbulent premixed
reactants is expected to be more difficult because of increased dissipation of the deposited …

The improved performance of plasma assisted combustion (PAC) simulations using the fully analytical Jacobian

Y Ban, F Zhang, N Zhang, S Zhong, J Zhu, Y Pei - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
The open-source package ZDPlasKin is integrated into OpenFOAM to develop the ZDP-OF
platform, facilitating simultaneous computations of plasma discharge and chemical reactions …

Kinetic insights into nanosecond pulsed plasma assisted NH3/O2/Ar ignition with R-matrix cross section

N Liu, H Chen, M Zhang, Q Chen, X Jiang… - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
This work experimentally and numerically studied the kinetic roles of non-equilibrium
nanosecond pulsed discharge in the oxidation and ignition of NH 3/O 2/Ar mixture at low …

Kinetic roles of excited state species in the oxidation of n-pentane/air assisted by nanosecond-pulsed discharge

N Liu, Q Chen, X Jiang, J Chen, L Zhang - Combustion and Flame, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite the significant advancement in plasma assisted combustion recently, many of the
underlying plasma/combustion interaction mechanisms remain unknown. Critical data such …

How pulse energy affects ignition efficiency of DBD plasma-assisted combustion

R Patel, R Peelen, J van Oijen, N Dam… - Journal of Physics D …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This work aims to find how coupled energy per pulse influences the ability of a pulsed
dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma to ignite fuel-lean methane–air flow. For that …