Chamber Clearingby

Electrostatic Fields

L. Bromberg

ARIES MeetingUCSD

January 10, 2002

Motivation

• Aerosols are created in chamber due to large heating flux on surface of liquid

• Aerosols are charged, due to presence of plasma afterglow following the pulse

• Electric fields can be used to remove aerosol• Similar to electrostatic precipitators used commercially for

removing particulate matter from industrial flows

Structure of talk

• Charge state of aerosols exposed to plasma conditions

• Motion of charged aerosols under the presence of an electric field

• Implications to IFE chamber clearing

Aerosol clearing steps

Charging step Clearing step

Aerosol charging

• In the presence of a plasma, a particulate charge varies as dq/dt = Ii+Ie

where Ie = - a2 e ve ne exp ( -e2 | Z | / 0 a Te)

Ii = a2 e vi ni (1 + e2 | Z | / 0 a Ti)

• Z is the average number of electronic charges in the particulate

• It is assumed that all radiation fields have decayed away• Good for times > 1 microsecond

Average electronic charge number vs Te for several densities

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35000

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16Te (eV)

Number of electronic charges on aerosol

ne : 5.e18 - 2.e19 /m3ne = 5 1018 - 2 1019 m-3

a = 10 m

Average electronic charge number vs aerosol size

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0.0E+00 2.0E-06 4.0E-06 6.0E-06 8.0E-06 1.0E-05 1.2E-05Aerosol diameter (m)

Elementary charge number

Te = 5 eV

Ti = 0.2 eV

Density and temperature evolution (assumption)

0.E+001.E+142.E+143.E+144.E+145.E+146.E+147.E+148.E+149.E+141.E+15

0 0.00001 0.00002 0.00003 0.00004 0.00005

time (s)

Density (1/m3)

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Temperature (eV)

DensityTeTi

Average electronic charge number vs time

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0 0.00001 0.00002 0.00003 0.00004 0.00005time (s)

Elementary charges in aerosol

Time constant for evolution

1.0E-06

1.0E-05

1.0E-04

0 10 20 30 40time (s)

(Z-Z

final

)/(dZ/dt)

Time evolution of aerosol charging

• Aerosol charge equilibrates very fast with background

• ~ several microseconds at densities of 1015 /m3

• Aerosol charge not very dependent on initial state• Initial aerosol charge depends on radiation field and fast

electron/ion bombardment

Aerosol motion in the presence of an electric field

• The motion of a particulate in a gas under the effect of an applied field is given by: v = Zp E E is the applied electric field and Zp is the particulate mobility: Zp = qp Cc / 3 a where qp is the particulate charge Cc is the Cunningham correction factor is the gas viscosity a is the particulate radius

Cc = 1 + Kn ( 1.25 + 0.40 exp( -1.1/ Kn ) ) Kn = 2 l / a, l being the mean free path of the a gas molecule For Xe at 0.1 Torr, l = 2.62 x 10-4 m

Gas viscosity

• Using the kinetic theory of transport gases (assuming hard sphere collisions):

• = ( T / T0 ) 1/2

(independent of density!!!)

• For Xenon, • ~ 44 Pa s at 600K

At 2000 K, ~ 110 Pa s

y = 0.3282x0.7649

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0 500 1000 1500Temperature (K)

viscosity (micro Pa s)

g/cm s = 0.1 Pa s

Aerosol cleaning

pressure (STP) Torr 0.1Electron temperature eV 5Viscosity, Xe Pa s 1.10E-04Mean Free path m 2.62E-04

Aerosol diameter m 3.00E-07Knudsen number 1747Cunningham factor 2883

Elementary charges 2.54E+02Mobility 3.77E-04Applied electric field V/m 1.00E+04

Aerosol velocity m/s 3.77E+00

Velocity of aerosols10 kV/m, 0.1 Torr Xe, 5 eV

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0.0E+00 2.0E-06 4.0E-06 6.0E-06 8.0E-06 1.0E-05 1.2E-05Aerosol diameter (m)

aerosol velocity (m/s)

Aerosol clearing with electric fields

• Velocity of aerosols is small, compared with the chamber size• ~ several m/s

• For a rep-rate of 10 Hz, the maximum distance that the aerosols will be able to move is 1 m!

• Relatively large electric fields are required (100 V/cm)• Difficult to generate inductively• Capacitive field generation requires electrodes in chamber

• Can the liquid wall itself be used as electrodes?

• Could be used to prevent aerosols from depositing in optics.