Optical Emission Spectroscopy and Electrical Study of High Power Thermal Arc Plasma Switching Device

Authors

  • S. Mohsenian
  • J. Fathi
  • B. Shokri

Keywords:

atmospheric thermal arc plasma, switching device, arc voltage, arc temperature

Abstract

In this work, an atmospheric thermal plasma arc generated from a laboratory scale high power arc switching device was investigated. In the presented study the typical voltage and current profiles from the arc switching device were measured by a high voltage probe and a Rogowski coil. It was shown that the volt-ampere characteristic of the arc plasma is directly related to the distance between electrodes. This switching device has a pulse width range of approximately 120 ns. Furthermore, the optical emis-sion spectroscopy techniques were used to measurement of the arc temperature and to identify the plasma active species. The calculated arc temperature is about 14000 K.

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2014-08-10

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Vol. 1 No. 3 (2014)

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