Liquid dielectric

About: Liquid dielectric is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3702 publications have been published within this topic receiving 45150 citations.

Numerical simulation of the electrical double layer development: physicochemical model at the solid and dielectric liquid interface for laminar flow electrification phenomenon

Abstract: At the solid-liquid interface, a charge zone called the Electrical Double Layer (EDL) appears. It is constituted of two zones of opposite sign, one in the solid and another one in the liquid. When a liquid flows through a pipe, there is a disturbance of the EDL and an axial streaming current is generated. This current is due to the convection of the charges coming from the electrical double layer. In this paper, we present a numerical simulation of the EDL development process in the case of a liquid containing additives or impurities which are partially dissociated into positive and negative ones. We treat the case of laminar flow and an interfacial reaction whose conversion is small compared to the concentration of positive and negative ions in the bulk solution. The boundary conditions are deduced from the kinetics of the wall surface reactions with additives. However, in this paper, the formation of the EDL at the solid-liquid interface is investigated without any flow (static case). Thus, the rate of the wall reaction and the resulting charge concentration in the liquid can be studied. Then, once the equilibrium of physicochemical reaction is reached, convection is forced and the EDL dynamic behavior has been studied (dynamic case). The physicochemical reaction at the solid-liquid interface, the evolution of the space charge density in terms of both the axial coordinates and flow velocity, and the equations of conservation of charge of the liquid species have been implemented to a developed version of "Electricite de France" finite volume CFD tool Code_Saturne, which is designed to solve the Navier- Stokes equations. Finally, the simulation results of the dynamic behavior at different flow rates are compared with the experimental results.

High voltage isolation and cooling for an inductively coupled plasma ion source

Abstract: A plasma source for processing or imaging a substrate, for ion source for proton therapy, for ion thrusters, or for high energy particle accelerators includes a coolant circuit passing adjacent to a plasma ion reactor chamber and RF antenna coils. In a method for operating the plasma ion source having an induction coil adjacent to a reaction chamber for inductively coupling power into the plasma from a radio frequency power source, the method comprises pumping a dielectric fluid into contact with induction coils of the plasma ion source along the coolant circuit. Use of the dielectric fluid both electrically insulates the plasma chamber, so that it can be biased to 30 kV and up, and efficiently transfers heat away from the plasma chamber.

Development of improved bubble disruption and dispersion technique by an applied electric field method.

Abstract: With the aid of nonuniform DC electric fields, an improved bubble disruption and dispersion technique has been developed for dielectric fluid bubble column reactors. The basic mechanisms which lead to bubble disruption and dispersion in the system have been studied both experimentally and theoretically. The influence of operating variables, liquid properties and electrode geometry on the present applied electric field method has been conducted. The efficiency of power consumption by using the present technique has also been revealed.