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NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF AN ARC PLASMA IN A DC ELECTRIC FURNACE

  • Lee Yeon Won;Lee Jong Hoon
    • 한국가시화정보학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.30-33
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    • 2004
  • In order to analyze the heat transfer phenomena in the plasma flames, a mathematical model describing heat and fluid How in an electric arc has been developed and used to predict heat transfer from the arc to the steel bath in a DC Electric Arc Furnace. The arc model takes the separate contributions to the heat transfer from each involved mechanism into account, i.e. radiation, convection and energy transported by electrons. The finite volume method and a SIMPLE algorithm are used for solving the governing MHD equations, i.e., conservation equations of mass, momentum, and energy together with the equations describing a standard $k-\varepsilon$ model for turbulence. The model predicts heat transfer for different currents and arc lengths. Finally these calculation results can be used as a useful insight into plasma phenomena of the industrial-scale electric arc furnace. from these results, it can be concluded that higher arc current and longer arc length give high heat transfer.

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Influence of $SF_6$ Gas On An Arc Plasma In UHV Circuit Breaker ($SF_6$ gas가 초고압 차단기 내에서 Arc Plasma에 미치는 영향)

  • Choi, Kyung-Chuel;Whang, Ki-Woong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1987.11a
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    • pp.278-282
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    • 1987
  • Computational and theoritical investigations of an arc plasma have been made for the design of a circuit breaker. Modeling of an arc plasma used to be very involved and difficult because of the many variables and factors, In this paper, the dynamic behavior of an arc plasma is investigated by solving the MHD equations. Comparing an $SF_6$-blast arc with a non-blast arc, it has been found that the effect of gas-blast has a great influence on density rather than temperature.

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Numerical Analysis of an Arc Plasma in a DC Electric Furnace

  • Lee, Yeon-Won;Lee, Jong-Hoon
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.28 no.8
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    • pp.1251-1257
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    • 2004
  • In order to analyze the heat transfer phenomena in the plasma flames, a mathematical model describing heat and fluid flow in an electric arc has been developed and used to predict heat transfer from the arc to the steel bath in a DC Electric Arc Furnace. The arc model takes the separate contributions to the heat transfer from each involved mechanism onto account, that is radiation, convection and energy transported by electrons. The finite volume method and a SIMPLE algorithm are used for solving the governing MHD equations, that are conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy together with the equations describing a standard k-${\varepsilon}$ model for turbulence. The model predicts heat transfer for different currents and arc lengths. Finally these calculation results can be used as a useful insight into plasma phenomena of the industrial-scale electric arc furnace. From these results, it can be concluded that higher arc current and longer arc length give high heat transfer

Effects of light direction and exposure times of plasma arc light on shear bond strength of metal brackets (Plasma arc light를 이용한 금속 브라켓의 부착시 광조사 방향과 중합시간이 전단결합강도에 미치는 영향)

  • Roh, Sang-Jeong;Lee, Hyun-Jung;Jeon, Young-Mi;Kim, Jong-Ghee
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.34 no.5 s.106
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    • pp.429-438
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    • 2004
  • The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of different light direction exposure times and setting times when using plasma arc light on shear bond strength of metal brackets. 240 extracted human premolars were randomly assigned to one of 16 groups Standardized brackets were bonded to enamel using different light curing units (Plasma arc light and Halogen light), exposure times (Plasma arc light 2. 4, 6 seconds and Halogen light 20 seconds). and light directions [Vertical direction [V] and Oblique direction [O]). 8 groups were tested after 5 minutes and the remaining 8 groups after 24 hours. The metal brackets were bonded with Transbond XT. Shear bond strength was measured by a universal testing machine. The results were as fellows: There were as differences between the shear bond strengths of the Vertical groups (V) and Oblique groups (O). regardless of exposure times and types of light curing units (p>0.05). The shear bond strength of the group with 2 seconds of plasma light were significantly lower than other exposure time groups (P<0.05). The shear bond strength tested after 5 minutes was lower than after 24 hours (p<0.05) The Adhesive Remment Index (ARI) score showed no statistically significant difference among the different groups. The results of this study suggested that the light direction of plasma arc light had no influence on the shear bond strength of metal brackets to enamel. and exposure times more than 4 seconds produced shear bond strengths similar to those Produced with a conventional halogen curing light.

Investigation on The Role of Arc-jet Plasma in Methane Reforming (메탄개질에서의 아크젯 플라즈마의 역할)

  • Hwang, Na-Kyung;Lee, Dae-Hoon;Song, Young-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Combustion
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2006
  • A reaction mechanism of methane partial oxidation, which consists of thermal and plasma chemistry reaction pathways, has been investigated using with an arc-jet reactor. The reaction zone of the arc-jet reactor is spatially separated into thermal and non-thermal plasma zone. Methane conversion rates, selectivity of $H_2$ and $C_2$ chemicals in each zone are obtained, which reveals clearly different characteristics of reaction pathways depending on the temperature conditions. The conversion rates obtained in thermal plasma zone is higher than those in non-thermal plasma zone. The selectivity, however, obtained in non-thermal plasma zone is significantly higher than those in thermal plasma zone. Further parametric study on $O_2/C$ ratio, arc length and SED shows that the present process is mainly governed by thermal chemistry pathways.

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A Study on the Influence of Coaxial Parallel Magnetic Field upon Plasma Jet (Plasma Jet의 동축평행 자계에 의한 영향에 관한 연구 ( 1 ))

  • 전춘생
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.57-69
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    • 1973
  • The aim of this study was to investigate the behaviors of plasma jet under coaxial magnetic field in paralled with it for controlling optical characteristics and input power of plasma jet without impurity and instability of arc plasma column. Because the discharge characteristics of plasma jet were so distinctively different according to the existence or non-existence of magnetic field, the input power, luminous intensity of plasma jet and thermal efficiency were comparatively studied in respect of such variables as arc current, gap of electrode, quantity of argon flow, magnetic flux density, diameter and length of nozzle, with the use of several materials which were different in diameter and length of nozzel. The results were as follows; 1) The voltage tends to show a drooping characteristic at law current and then rises gradually. The luminous intensity of plasma jet increases exponentially with arc current. 2) Arc voltage increases and luminous intensity tends to decrease gradually as gap of electrode increases. 3) Arc voltage and luminous intensity tends to decrease gradually as gap of electrode increases. 3) Arc voltage and luminous intensity increase in accordance with the quantity of argon flow. 4) At first step, arc voltage increases to maximum value with the growth of flux density and then tends to show a gradual decrease. Luminous intensity decreases with the growth flux density. 5) Arc voltage decreases as the constriction length of nozzle increases, maximum decrease is shown at the constriction length of 20(mm) and it increases beyond that value. The luminous intensity decreases as the constriction length grows. 6) Arc voltage and luminous in tensity increase with the growth of diameters of nozzle. 7) Thermal efficiency has values between 50% and 75%, being influenced by arc current, the quantity of argon flow, flux density, the length of electrode gap and the constriction length of nozzle.

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Steady State Analysis of Nozzle Ablation Under High Temperature and High Pressure Arc Plasma (고온ㆍ고압 아크 플라즈마 하에서의 정상상태 노즐용삭 해석 기술)

  • 이병윤;송기동;정진교;박경엽
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers C
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    • v.52 no.9
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    • pp.395-399
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, physical phenomena which are related to the high temperature and high pressure arc plasma generated during the fault current interruption by SF6 gas circuit breakers are reviewed. In particular, in order to analyze nozzle ablation induced by the heats transferred to the surface of the poly-tetrafluoroethylene(PTFE) nozzle through arc radiation, a governing equation for the calculation of PTFE concentration is added to the governing equations for SF6 arc Plasma analysis. The proposed method is applied to the steady state analysis of $SF_6$ arc plasma generated by direct current taking account of the nozzle ablation and the results are presented.

A study on the physical behavior of arc plasmas in transferred-type Torch (이행형 토치에서의 아크 플라즈마의 물리적 거동에 관한 연구)

  • 김외동;고광철;강형부
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.45 no.3
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    • pp.415-425
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    • 1996
  • This study presents an analytical method of solving the behaviors of arc plasma in a nozzle constricting transferred-type torch and purposes to obtain the basic data for the design of a plasma torch, which can be obtained from the temperature, pressure, velocities and voltage distributions. We have to solve some conservation equations simultaneously and need to know the exact thermal gas properties in order to obtain the correct behaviors of arc plasma. It is also necessary to give the relevant physical or geometric boundary conditions. For the simplicity of analysis, we assumed that (a) the plasma flow is laminar, (b)the local thermodynamic equilibrium, i.e. LTE, prevails over the entire arc column region. The electrode sheath effects were neglected and the nozzle area was excluded from the analysis by assuming that the current flow into the nozzle is zero. We solved the momentum transfer equation including the self-magnetic pinch effect, and obtained the temperature distribution from the energy conservation equation. From this temperature, we could get arc voltage distribution. (author). refs., figs., tabs.

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The Hardfacing Technology by PTA Overlaying Process (PTA 오버레이 공정을 이용한 산업설비부품의 표면경화기술)

  • Kil, S.C.;Kim, H.T.;Kim, S.W.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Technology of Plasticity Conference
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.358-361
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    • 2009
  • The increasing interest in the surface modification technology by the plasma transferred arc overlaying process in the material processing is placing stringent demands on the manufacturing techniques and performance requirements, and the manufacture employs the high quality and efficiency plasma transferred arc overlaying technology. This paper covers recent technical trends of plasma transferred arc overlaying technology including the COMPENDEX DB analysis.

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A Study on Energy Recovery Circuit in Sputtering Plasma Power supply for arc Discharge Prevention (스퍼터용 플라즈마 전원장치의 아크방지를 위한 에너지 회생회로에 대한 연구)

  • Ban, Jung-Hyun;Han, Hee-Min;Kim, Joohn-Sheok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.61 no.3
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    • pp.116-121
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    • 2012
  • Recently, in the field of renewable energy such as solar cells including the semiconductor and display industries, thin film deposition process is being diversified. Furthermore, to deal with trend of making high-quality and fast, the high-capacity and output plasma power supply which can control high density plasma is required. The biggest problem is arc discharge caused by using high voltage power supply. Thus, the key function of plasma power supply is to prevent arc discharge and there is a need to maintain the possible minimum arc energy. In DC sputtering power supply, on a periodic basis (-)voltage powering up is able to significantly reduce arcing, as well as arc discharge prevention, and maintaining uniform charge density. This conventional method for powering up (-)voltage requires heavy mutual inductance of the transformer to avoid distortion problem of the output voltage. This study is about energy recovery circuit for arc discharge prevention in sputtering plasma power supply. By using energy recovery circuit, it is possible to reduce the mutual inductance and size of the transformer dramatically, prevent distortion of the output voltage and has a stable output waveform. This work was proved through simulation and experimental study.