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Thermophysics and Aeromechanics

2017 year, number 1

Methods for increasing the service life of electrodes in the arc plasmatorches

A.S. Anshakov1,2, V.A. Faleev1, and M.V. Cherednichenko1,2
1Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
2Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
E-mail: anshakov@itp.nsc.ru
Keywords: arc discharge, plasmatorch, heat fluxes, specific electrode erosion, vortex arc stabilization, self-repairing cathode
Pages: 141–146

Abstract

Results of experimental studies of electrode erosion in high-current arc discharges are presented. Available data on the service life of electrodes in the arc plasma generators sometimes are contradictory and do not give the whole pattern on the relationship of specific erosion of the electrode material with the basic determining parameters of the plasmatorch. The real ways to increase the duration of plasmatorch operation before electrode replacement have been proposed.

DOI: 10.1134/S0869864317010152