Yu Yeon Kim;Jai Young Chung;Ji Young Park;Sang-Uk Lee;Jinwoo Kim;Dong Jin Ham;Dong-Wook Kim;Kyoung-Jae Chung
{"title":"Evaluation of Energy Efficiency on Toluene Decomposition via Nanosecond Pulse Dielectric Barrier Discharge","authors":"Yu Yeon Kim;Jai Young Chung;Ji Young Park;Sang-Uk Lee;Jinwoo Kim;Dong Jin Ham;Dong-Wook Kim;Kyoung-Jae Chung","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3645319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3645319","url":null,"abstract":"Nanosecond pulse dielectric barrier discharge (NPDBD) exhibits high energy efficiency, making it an effective approach for the decomposition of volatile organic compounds (VOCs). However, accurately measuring the energy delivered to the plasma in nanosecond pulse systems is difficult due to the influence of the inherent parasitic components of the electrical characteristics of the system. This study develops and validates methods for measuring the delivered energy in NPDBD, thereby ensuring accurate energy efficiency measurements. We proposed precise discharge current measurement methods by comparing the experimental and simulation results. We conducted toluene decomposition experiments under varying applied voltage and pulsewidth conditions, which revealed an energy efficiency range of 35-45 g/kWh. The validated energy measurement methods present a foundation for the removal of VOCs in NPDBD systems, presenting more efficient electrical conditions for industrial applications.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1366-1376"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fundamental Longitudinal Electromagnetic (EM) Force Investigation Using DC Current","authors":"Neal Graneau","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3640514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3640514","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this work was to investigate historical claims of the existence of a longitudinal electromagnetic (EM) force component acting on metallic atomic current elements in a direction parallel to the current flowing through them. This lies outside conventional textbook physics predictions, yet its reality has been indicated previously and if eventually confirmed will have a significant effect on physics theory and many technological applications, especially those involving high-current density (<inline-formula> <tex-math>$gt$ </tex-math></inline-formula>10<sup>9</sup> A/m<sup>2</sup>) including EM mass drivers such as railguns with liquid metal sliding contacts, flux compression generators and also high-energy plasmas including fusion and other energy technologies. The experiment described here is based on the measurement of force on a supported copper armature submerged in a trough containing liquid metal through which constant dc current is passing. The coaxial symmetry of the experiment, coaxial recoil experiment (CRE), was able to limit all net force on the centered armature to the direction of interest, parallel to the current within it. All the experimental data related the measured forces on the armature to the total current flowing through the circuit. Variations were made to the length and location of the armature along the central axis as well as modifications to the liquid metal configuration. Raw and processed results are presented, and an experimental technique is described that revealed strong evidence for the existence of, and discrimination between, axial mechanical contact forces between solid and liquid metal as well as longitudinal EM force. The original EM force law, proposed in 1822 by Ampère, includes a longitudinal component and has been found to be qualitatively consistent with all experiments to date, including these reported findings, and is considered a candidate explanatory theory.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1867-1873"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flux Characteristics Analysis of Novel Tubular Permanent Magnet Linear Launcher","authors":"Xing Wang;Hao Chen;Hossein Torkaman;Xiaodong Li;Ryszard Palka;Jason Gu;Quoc Vuong Dang;Vu Thanh Nguyen;Abror Abidovich Pulatov;Murat Fikhratovich Shamiyev","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2026.3658962","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2026.3658962","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyzes the flux characteristics of a novel tubular permanent magnet linear launcher (TPMLL) with short stroke and high-frequency motion characteristics, suitable for application in the electromagnetic launcher. In this article, the proposed TPMLL consists of the following parts: the outer stator, outer air gap, mover made of permanent magnets (PMs), inner air gap, and the inner stator. A magnetic equivalent circuit (MEC) method is established to analyze the electromagnetic characteristics and provide the basis for the structural design. To solve the MEC model, the Newton–Raphson method is adopted. By comparing the results of the finite element method (FEM) with the MEC model, it is found that the accuracy of MEC method has good accuracy in estimating the flux linkage of the proposed motor, which is very suitable to be used in the initial stage of the structural design.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1858-1866"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special Issue for Selected Papers from EAPPC/BEAMS/EML 2026","authors":"","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2026.3679923","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2026.3679923","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1337-1337"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11482052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial Special Issue on Plenary, Invited, and Workshop on Pulsed Power for Fusion From the 25th IEEE Pulsed Power Conference (PPC) and the 52nd IEEE International Conference on Plasma (ICOPS)","authors":"Bangdou Huang;Laurent Pecastaing;Igor Timoshkin","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2026.3677520","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2026.3677520","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1339-1339"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11482059","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vladimir E. Messerle;Alexandr B. Ustimenko;Sestager Kh. Aknazarov
{"title":"Polyethylene Terephthalate Plasma Gasification","authors":"Vladimir E. Messerle;Alexandr B. Ustimenko;Sestager Kh. Aknazarov","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3596379","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3596379","url":null,"abstract":"Plasma-air gasification of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) was studied experimentally and thermodynamically. An analysis of the gasification degree, specific energy consumption, and gas phase composition was conducted. Plasma torch power ranged from 68.7 to 82.1 kW, while PET and air consumption were 8–11 and 19.4 kg/h, respectively. Plasma torch power of 82.1 kW with a corresponding reactor wall temperature of 1704 K achieved a maximum fuel gas concentration of 60.8% and a minimum concentration of ballast impurities. PET was gasified up to 80.8%. Specific energy consumption for the PET gasification process was 1.2 kWh/kg. Studies have confirmed the potential for plasma-air gasification for converting PET into fuel gas using a plasma reactor.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1281-1286"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nurken E. Aktaev;Hui Li;Zhongxiang Zhou;Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev;Koblandy K. Yerzhanov;Dewei Gong;Chengxun Yuan
{"title":"Adequacy of Modeling the Energy Loss Function of Fast Electrons Taking Into Account Quantum Effects","authors":"Nurken E. Aktaev;Hui Li;Zhongxiang Zhou;Anatoly A. Kudryavtsev;Koblandy K. Yerzhanov;Dewei Gong;Chengxun Yuan","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3649529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3649529","url":null,"abstract":"The behavior of the energy loss function (ELF) for fast electrons in ionospheric plasma is investigated over a wide energy range. It is demonstrated that at high energies (greater than 2 eV), the results obtained using the widely used Swartz approximation for calculating energy losses deviate significantly from the values obtained using the quantum approach proposed by Larkin. Using the kinetic approach, a universal expression for calculating losses over a wide energy range is derived. This expression yields results that agree well with those obtained using the Swartz approximation for low energies (less than 2 eV) and those calculated taking quantum effects into account using Larkin’s approach.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1332-1336"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Development of a Fast-Rising Short-Pulse High-Voltage Power Supply Using SiC-MOSFETs for the J-PARC Kicker System","authors":"Tomohiro Takayanagi;Koki Horino;Tomoaki Ueno;Moe Sugita;Yasuhiro Fuwa;Shinichi Shinozaki;Ayato Ono;Akira Tokuchi;Naoya Ikoma;Hiroaki Kamezaki","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3615920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3615920","url":null,"abstract":"We have been developing a semiconductor switch power supply using silicon carbide metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (SiC-MOSFETs) as an alternative to conventional discharge tube thyratron-type switch power supplies. The newly developed power supply, based on the linear transformer driver (LTD) circuit system, delivers 40-kV, 2-kA, and 1.2-<inline-formula> <tex-math>$mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula>s pulsewidth at 25 Hz. This power supply has achieved performance that allows replacing the current kicker power supply using the thyratron switch in the Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) 3-GeV rapid cycling synchrotron (RCS). The specifications of the developed LTD pulse power supply circuit for SiC-MOSFETs, the corona-free high-voltage section, and the results of power saving and miniaturization will be reported.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1889-1894"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A High Repetition Frequency Pulsed Power System for Constraining Welding Arc Plasma","authors":"Yingzhe Liu;Hongfa Ding;Yunlong Chang;Ziqi Zhang","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3635293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3635293","url":null,"abstract":"Magnetic control welding has the merits of high welding efficiency and equality by constraining the welding arc plasma with a high-frequency pulsed magnetic field (HF-PMF). However, the existing pulsed power system cannot meet the demand of the HF-PMF (>1 kHz). In this article, a high repetition frequency pulsed power system (HRF-PPS) is proposed to generate an HF-PMF, which has the advantages of high stability, steep falling, and rising edges. HRF-PPS consists of three parts: a high peak-to-average power ratio pulsed power generator (PAPR-PPG) to produce a high-frequency square pulsed current, a capacitor charging power supply (CCPS) to supplement capacitor energy, and a magnet to generate a magnetic field (MF). The steep rising and falling edges are achieved by releasing and storing the capacitor energy to and from the magnet. The magnet is designed by simplified quadratic programming (QP) and particle swarm optimization (SQP-PSO) to minimize the magnet heat generation. Experimental results demonstrate that the HRF-PPS generates an HF-PMF of 0.1 T at 2 kHz, which aligns with simulation results and verifies the feasibility of the proposed idea.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1340-1347"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plasma-Assisted Synthesis of Lithium-Based Cathode Materials From Salt Solutions—Part 1: Evaporation of Salt Solutions in a Nitrogen Plasma","authors":"Igor B. Matveev;Serhiy I. Serbin","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2025.3604988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/TPS.2025.3604988","url":null,"abstract":"This investigation explores the evaporation dynamics of three aqueous multicomponent salt solutions exposed to a 30 kW nitrogen plasma jet. The solutions, characterized by varying salt concentrations, were introduced into a plasma mixing chamber in the form of droplets with initial diameters ranging from 30–100 <inline-formula> <tex-math>$mu $ </tex-math></inline-formula> m. Detailed 3-D simulations were conducted in ANSYS fluent to assess the impact of droplet size and solution composition on evaporation efficiency. The results demonstrate that higher-concentration solutions require less energy for complete evaporation and provide a more uniform output profile, making them preferable for plasma-assisted thermal treatment applications.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"54 4","pages":"1294-1299"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147685557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}