The design of a plasma generator used in ships

摘要

The process and condition of arc starting and discharge and heat balance rela-tionship in a plasma generator that takes water as propellant are analyzed. Two questions that must be paid attention to arise, when designing the plasma gen-erator. Water resistance in a plasma generator should be as big as possible, and inductive reactance of electric source should be equal to capacity reactance of plasma generator so that resonance is generated in electric circuit, voltage be-tween two electrodes in the plasma generator reaches the highest value, and arc starting and discharge also occur between electrodes in the plasma generator. When energy that electric source supplies is greater than or equal to the energy required when water becomes plasma, a mixture of plasma and steam ejects from the generator outlet. So it is necessary that cavity between electrodes in the plasma generator should be as big as possible, time that water stays in the plasma gen-erator should be long enough so that water obtains enough energy from the electric source, but resistance of water becomes small and arc starting is not easy to occur. Through manufacturing and experimentes on four kinds of plasma generators as well as the contrast between experimental results, the plasma generator model is established and the plasma generator is manufactured.