Flames with plasmas

DA Lacoste - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2023 - Elsevier
Non-equilibrium plasma discharges can create a favorable environment for combustion
processes, at low energy cost.“How favorable?” and “How low?” are two open questions that …

Non-equilibrium plasma for ignition and combustion enhancement

S Starikovskaia, DA Lacoste, G Colonna - The European Physical Journal …, 2021 - Springer
This review is intended to give an overview of recent results on plasma-assisted ignition and
combustion. The influence of electrical discharges on combustion processes is introduced …

Flammability enhancement of swirling ammonia/air combustion using AC powered gliding arc discharges

Y Tang, D Xie, B Shi, N Wang, S Li - Fuel, 2022 - Elsevier
Aiming at the potential development of ammonia as a carbon-free renewable fuel, this work
investigates the flammability and NO x emission of swirling ammonia/air flames and utilizes …

Stabilization and Emission Characteristics of Gliding Arc-Assisted NH3/CH4/Air Premixed Flames in a Swirl Combustor

J Sun, Q Huang, Y Tang, S Li - Energy & Fuels, 2022 - ACS Publications
This paper investigates the effects of gliding arc (GA) discharge on the stabilization and
emission characteristics of premixed NH3/CH4/air swirl flames under various ammonia …

Plasma-assisted stabilization of premixed swirl flames by gliding arc discharges

J Sun, Y Tang, S Li - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents key effects of gliding arc discharges on the stability limits of externally
perturbed methane/air swirl flames. The low-frequency flow disturbance mimicking the …

Extension of flammability and stability limits of swirling premixed flames by AC powered gliding arc discharges

Y Tang, J Sun, B Shi, S Li, Q Yao - Combustion and Flame, 2021 - Elsevier
This work seeks to achieve stable combustion of swirling premixed flows using gliding arc
discharges and understand how plasma alters flame dynamics near blow-off. Gliding arc …

Rotating gliding arc discharge induced flame oscillation near the lean blowout limit

C Kong, Y Wang, X Wu, Z Zhang - Combustion and Flame, 2023 - Elsevier
This work investigates the rotating gliding arc (RGA) assisted swirling methane combustion
characteristics near the lean blowout limit by utilizing the high-speed videography. As the …

[HTML][HTML] Blowout dynamics and plasma-assisted stabilization of premixed swirl flames under fuel pulsations

J Sun, H Wu, Y Tang, C Kong, S Li - Applications in Energy and Combustion …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present work investigates blowout dynamics of premixed swirl flames under low-
frequency high-amplitude flow pulsations from the fuel feedline, and applies microsecond …

Plasma-assisted pyrolysis and ignition of pre-vaporized n-heptane, iso-octane and n-decane

Y Tang, Q Yao, J Zhuo, S Li - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
We intensively investigated the kinetic enhancement of dielectric-barrier-discharge (DBD)
plasma on the pyrolysis and ignition of n-heptane, iso-octane, and n-decane fuels in a …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of microsecond repetitively pulsed discharges on lean blow-off limit and emission of rapidly-mixed ammonia/air swirling flames

Y Tang, D Xie, C Wei, B Huang, B Shi… - Applications in Energy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work aims to implement an actuator integrating a swirl burner with electrodes to explore
stable and low-emission combustion of ammonia/air. The cavity structure holds a plasma …