Non-thermal plasma is an emerging technique in environmental pollution control technology, produced by the high-voltage discharge processes and therefore a large amount of high energy electrons and active species are generated. The degradation of difficult-degraded organic pollutions will be greatly enhanced by the active species generated from non-thermal plasma process. However, research on n...

An economic magnetic fusion reactor favours a high ratio of plasma kinetic pressure to magnetic pressure in a well-confined, hot plasma with low thermal losses across the confining magnetic field. Field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasmas are potentially attractive as a reactor concept, achieving high plasma pressure in a simple axisymmetric geometry. Here, we show that FRC plasmas have unique...

The dynamics of two counter-streaming electron-positron-ion unmagnetized plasma shells with zero net charge is analyzed in the context of magnetic field generation in GRB internal shocks due to the Weibel instability. The effects of large thermal motion of plasma particles, arbitrary mixture of plasma species and space charge effects are taken into account. We show that, although thermal effect...

The present study is dedicated to the reforming of Diesel fuel with Diesel engine exhaust gas using a non-thermal plasma torch for NOx trap regeneration application. The plasma technology developed is based on a high voltage / low current non-thermal plasma torch. In the first part of the paper, experimental results on production of synthesis gas from Diesel fuel reforming with ha l-0 06 17 14 ...

This paper introduces recent optical measurements of radicals in atmospheric pressure non-thermal plasma. Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF), laser absorption, and optical emission spectroscopy (OES) techniques have been applied for density and temperature measurements of OH radicals, NO molecules, ozone, atomic oxygen, atomic nitrogen, and N2( A3Σ u ) metastables in pulsed corona and pulsed diel...

We report the ASCA results of the super-nova remnants (SNRs) and their candidates in the Galac-tic Center region. We found apparent X-ray emission from G359.1−0.5 and G0.9+0.1, and made marginal detection for G359.1+0.9, but found no significant X-ray from the other cataloged SNRs: G359. The emission from G359.1−0.5 is found to be thermal with multi temperature structures whereas that from G0.9...

The air pollutions from combustion flue gas and industrial gases became worse and cause the environmental problem. It is difficult for the conventional methods such as selective catalytic reduction method and lime-gypsum method to treat exhaust gases energy efficiently and inexpensively. Its energy efficiency and its initial and running costs are still in negative situation for the backward nat...

The effect of cleaning the surface of single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) networks by thermal and the O₂ plasma treatments is presented in terms of NH₃ gas sensing characteristics. The goal of this work is to determine the relationship between the physicochemical properties of the cleaned surface (including the chemical composition, crystal structure, hydrophilicity, and impurity content) and ...

The effects of microwave plasma induction and reduction on the promotion of the carbothermal reduction of iron oxides (α-Fe2O3, γ-Fe2O3, and Fe3O4) are investigated using in situ emission spectroscopy measurements during 2.45 GHz microwave processing, and the plasma discharge (such as CN and N2) is measured during microwave E-field irradiation. It is shown that CN gas or excited CN molecules co...

We report a low current collapse GaN-based high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) with an excellent thermal stability at 150 °C. The AlN was grown by N2-based plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) and shown a refractive index of 1.94 at 633 nm of wavelength. Prior to deposit AlN on III-nitrides, the H2/NH3 plasma pre-treatment led to remove the native gallium oxide. The X-ray photoe...