Authors: Javad Mostaghimi Maher I Boulos
Publish Date: 2015/02/26
Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 421-436
Abstract
Thermal plasma devices have evolved over the years from an aerospace RD tool for the simulation of reentry of space vehicles into powerful sources for a wide range of applications including materials processing nanopowder synthesis and deposition of functional coatings waste treatment and biomass gasification With the development of full scale industrial applications it is increasingly apparent that the plasma source is an integral part of the process and that the success of a technology depends to a large extent on the way the plasma source satisfies the process needs In this paper a short review is presented of a selected number of commercially available plasma sources that are using DC and/or RF inductively coupled plasma torch technologies
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