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Partitioned Operation Method for Reactive Oxygen Species Reactor Array at Atmospheric Pressure

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The performance of reactive oxygen species generator is low in the large-scale application because of the lower operating frequency determined by geometrical scale amplification effect. This paper proposes a method named partitioned operation method whereby the resonance frequency can be kept even if the number of reactor modules increases. The idea is to use n number of low-power high-frequency transformers instead of conventional high-power transformer. One low-power high-frequency transformer and one reactor module constitute a partitioned operation unit, then n number of the partitioned operation units are connected to an inverter, with each unit designed to operate at its optimum operating frequency. The main advantage of the proposed method is to keep the resonance frequency when the number of reactor modules is increased. In addition, the discharge system is very flexible because the number of partitioned operation units can be added or removed as demanded by the ROS generation. In this study, a ROS generator included twenty-four reactor modules was designed and implemented for confirming the feasibility of partitioned operation method. Results show that the efficiency of ROS generation did not decline with the increase of reactor module number.

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The work was supported by National key technology research and development program of the ministry of science and technology of China (No. 2013BAV06B02), the National natural science foundation project of China (No. 51309039) and Public science and technology research funds projects of ocean (No. 201305027-5).

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  1. Department of Physics, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China

    Zhe Yu, Zhitao Zhang & Yiping Tian

  2. Institute of Marine Engineering, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, 116026, China

    Zhitao Zhang, Shujing Xu, Yunge Zhang & Pu Liu

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Yu, Z., Zhang, Z., Xu, S. et al. Partitioned Operation Method for Reactive Oxygen Species Reactor Array at Atmospheric Pressure. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 37, 475–487 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11090-016-9776-4

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