Capacitive discharges

Figure C3.1.1. The basic elements of a time-resolved spectral measurement. A pump source perturbs tlie sample and initiates changes to be studied. Lasers, capacitive-discharge Joule heaters and rapid reagent mixers are some examples of pump sources. The probe and detector monitor spectroscopic changes associated with absorjDtion, fluorescence, Raman scattering or any otlier spectral approach tliat can distinguish the initial, intennediate and final...

Actually, the system capacitance and the pressure-decay rate measure the rate of capacitance discharge of the system. Because the combustion process is known to be controlled by pressure, the pressure-decay rate will disturb the combustion process. If the decay rate is greater than the intrinsic pressure-growth rate of the controlling reaction, the combustion process will not recover. This suggests that the pressure-decay rate dP/dt is the intrinsic term, rather than the capacitance term (L ). 

Relaxations in photoprocesses, which may be due to surface recombination, minority carrier diffusion, or capacitive discharges, are typically measured as transients of photocurrents or photoprocesses. An analysis of such processes in the time domain encounters some inherent problems. 

Capacitive Discharges. Capacitive discharges are responsible for at least 90% of all dust and vapor ignitions of ESD origin. The... 

Figure 5. The capacitive discharge. Sometimes series resistance slows the discharge, increasing or decreasing the likelihood of a dust ignition.

Capacitive discharges are characterized by the electrostatic energy Ue converted to thermal energy in the spark. While somewhat difficult to measure accurately, the energy released in a capacitive spark is commonly estimated using the following relationship. 

Fundamentally what is required at the plug is high voltage (either delivered through inductance or capacitance discharge) and more amps (current flow) that will better allow the rapid release of electrons into the compressed fog vapor in the cylinder to create the avalanche reaction. This can be done as Sir has successfully shown or through various other techniques discussed below. 

The resistor (R1) is used to control the capacitor. The first diode (D1) can be either a single diode (halfwave rectified) or a bridge rectifier. The second diode (D2) is to protect the capacitor from the HV spike from the coil and should be large enough to provide blocking resistance to this spike. The third diode (D3) similarly prevents the capacitance discharge from flowing back to the coil. 

FIGURE 8.9 Capacitance discharge configuration used in static voltage discharge model. 

In such a capacitive discharge, powder formation was stated to occur in the region of low pressure and low flow rate, whereas in the inductively coupled reactor used by Liepins and Sakaoku [7] it was found to occur under conditions of high flow rate and high pressure. The critical parameter for powder formation, however, was reported by Kobayashi et al. [9] to be the energy input per mole of gas. They reported that for a pressure of 2 torr, the approximate values of the critical energy input of 50, 100, and 150 W correspond to dosages of 2.68 x 10, 2.9 x 10, and 2.08 X lO J/mole, respectively. 

Raizer, Yu.P, Shneider, M., Yatsenko, N.A. (1995), Radio-frequency Capacitive Discharges, Nauka (Science),... 

Because Rm is very large (typically > 1 MQ) it passes very little current in this initial transition compared to the capacitors and doesn t enter into this time constant. On a longer time scale than this initial charging, the membrane capacitance discharges through Rm with a time constant t2 approximated by Equation 6 for a small electrolyte resistance Re ... 

Capacitance discharge is followed by the asymmetric gating currents. In our model they represent the removal of a pair of electrons from the (by rigorous formalism) superionic charge-transfer band to SMOS. Changes in the CT-band can be illustrated as follows ... 

Cryogenic traps are convenient accumulation and injection devices for fast gas chromatography and interfaces for coupled-column gas chromatography, where a heartcut sample is collected and focused from the first column, and reinjected into the second column. The main requirement for a cryogenic trap used in these applications is efficient accumulation over time with rapid injection of the collected analytes as a narrow pulse in both time and space. Commercially available systems using a capacitance discharge for heating provide injection bandwidths of 5-20 ms. 

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