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Reactive Species Transport To Water Micro-Droplets In Atmospheric Pressure Rf

Glow Discharges

Conference Paper · September 2021

DOI: 10.1109/ICOPS36761.2021.9588442

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 REACTIVE SPECIES TRANSPORT TO WATER
MICRO-DROPLETS IN ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
RF GLOW DISCHARGES*

Gaurav Nayak and Peter J. Bruggeman

Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of
Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA

Mackenzie Meyer and Mark J. Kushner

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA

Chemical reactivity transfer from gas-phase plasmas to liquid

can be significantly enhanced when a plasma interacts with
small liquid micro-droplets as opposed to bulk liquid. In this
contribution, the role of •OH as well as non-•OH driven
chemistry on the degradation of an organic compound
(formate) by activation of water micro-droplets by
atmospheric pressure diffuse RF glow plasmas in He and
different gas admixtures (Ar, H2, O2, H2O) is explored. Using
detailed gas-phase plasma diagnostics, droplet
characterization and ex situ chemical analysis of the plasma-
treated droplets, the effect of short-lived species such as O•,
H• and •OH, O2(a), electrons/ions, and metastable atoms of
He and Ar is quantified. With increasing droplet residence
time, the formate decomposition increases in electronegative
plasmas (He/H2O He/Ar/H2O, He/O2), with a maximum of
~70% within ~15 ms, while an inverse trend is observed in
electropositive plasmas (He, He/H2, He/Ar), with >75%
degradation within ~5 ms.

A 1D reaction-diffusion model can predict the formate

oxidation via •OH transport in He/H2O plasma1, which is flux
limited at lower H2O concentrations, while diffusion limited
at higher H2O concentrations in the plasma. The lower limits
of the transport properties and reaction rates of O• with
formate could be estimated semi-quantitatively using the
same model in He/O2 plasma. In contrast, the influx of
charged species (e−/ions) into the droplet leads to H• and •OH
production near the droplet interface, enabling further
degradation of formate in electropositive plasmas, while the
effect of gas-phase plasma produced H• radicals could be
neglected. This proposed mechanism is further corroborated
by detailed multiscale modeling.

1. G. Oinuma, G. Nayak, Y. Du and P. J. Bruggeman,

“Controlled plasma–droplet interactions: A quantitative study
of OH transfer in plasma–liquid interaction,” Plasma Sources
Science and Technology, 29(9), 095002, 2020.

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* This work was supported by the Army Research Office
under Grant No. W911NF-20-1-0105 and NSF grant under
Award Number PHY 1903151.

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