Gliding arc tornado

Figure 10-4. Schematic of the gliding arc tornado (GAT) reactor with a heat exchanger for effective fuel conversion into syngas.

Figure 1—8. Gliding arc discharge stabilized in the reverse vortex ( tornado ) gas flow.

I. Special Configurations of Gliding Arc Discharges Gliding Arc Stabilized in Reverse Vortex (Tornado) Flow... 

Interesting for applications is gliding arc stabilization in the reverse vortex (tornado) flow. This approach is opposite that of the conventional forward-vortex stabilization (Fig. 4-59a), where the swirl generator is placed upstream with respect to discharge and the rotating gas provides the walls with protection from the heat flux (Gutsol, 1997). Reverse... 

Figure 4-60. Non-equilibrium gliding arc discharge moving along a spiral eleetrode and stabilized in the reverse vortex (tornado) flow.

Kalra, C.S. (2004), Gliding Arc in Tornado and its Application for Plasma-Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane, Thesis, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. 

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