POROUS ELEMENTS IN PLASMA GENERATORS
WITH A LIQUID ELECTROLYTIC CATHODE

Kh. K. Tazmeev and B. Kh. Tazmeev

UDC 537.523.9

Variants of basic diagrams and energy characteristics 
of generators of an atmospheric-pressure nonequilibrium gas-discharge 
plasma the working surfaces of whose cathode units are manufactured 
from a porous nonmetallic material have been given. Tap water and 
aqueous solutions of different salts and alkalis have been employed 
as the electrolytes. It has been shown that the use of porous elements 
in the cathode unit substantially extends the possibilities of structural 
design of plasma generators with liquid electrodes, contributes to 
a significant increase in the discharge gap (to 200 mm), and makes 
it possible to increase the fraction of heat going to heat up the 
plasma in the positive column in the heat balance of the discharge.

Kama State Polytechnic Institute, Naberezhnye Chelny, 
Russia; email: almazT@yandex.ru. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii 
Zhurnal, Vol. 76, No. 4, pp. 107-114, July-August, 2003. Original 
article submitted June 11, 2002; revision submitted November 15, 2002.