Effect of Power Source and Alcohol Addition on Atmospheric Plasma Jet Properties

摘要

Atmospheric pressure plasma jet has been gathering much attention in various field suchas environmental and biological field. For industrial application, however, current plasma jet has manydrawbacks. Among them, its running cost is not economical and reduction of plasma production costis still an important issue in the basic discharge research. For example, a small diameter rod electrodehelps discharge at low applied voltage with field concentration effect, and reactive radical generationwas enhanced. InW.T.Sun’s paper, the breakdown voltage for argon was reported to reduce by addingethanol, although detail mechanism is still an open question.