Experimental Study of the Stability of the Interface between a Liquid Electrolyte and the Glow Discharge Plasma

Non-thermal plasmas in and in contact with liquids

“…It should be emphasized that water surface dynamics in the case of a liquid cathode is important. Different modes of glow discharges at a reduced pressure of 40-60 Torr with electrolyte cathodes and discharge currents of the order of 100 mA are observed by Vyalykh et al [152]. One of the modes created standing waves on the surface.…”

Electrohydrodynamic stability of a plasma-liquid interface

“…16 Melcher's marginal stability criterion was invoked by Bruggeman et al in order to explain the filamentary structure of a glow discharge over a water cathode 17 and, additionally, to explain the instability of an electrolytic water solution cathode from an earlier experiment. 18 Earlier evidence for EHD instabilities of the plasma-liquid interface appears in an experiment on unrelated work 19 where an arc spot occasionally formed on an electrically isolated mercury pool which was in contact with the plasma. Another EHD effect, the deformation of a liquid surface into a Taylor cone, has recently been used to form the cathode of a corona discharge.…”

Current–voltage characteristics of ionic liquid–air glow discharges

“…In the case of plasma electrolysis, discharge phenomena have been observed with both positive and negative biasing of the electrodes, depending on the electrode-electrolyte combination and vary in appearance with the gas used and the electrolyte solution. Many people have investigated the discharges at the electrode-electrolyte interface (Hicking and Ingram 1964;Gubkin 1887;Susanta et al 1998;Polyakov et al 2002Polyakov et al , 2003Vyalykh et al 2005;Gao 2006;Zong-cheng et al 2006;Meiss et al 2007;Poelleth et al 2007;Endres et al 2008;Jinzhang et al 2008;Bruggeman et al 2008Bruggeman et al , 2009Karnasagar and Shekhar, 2009;Brettholle et al 2010) in the past for the degradation of toxic substances (Harada et al 1977(Harada et al , 1978Gai and Dong 2005;Gai 2006a, b;Yan et al 2009), but the plasma-liquid interaction is still not well understood due to the complex and dynamical nature of the plasma-liquid interface.…”