Chemically Non-Equilibrium Modeling of Argon Inductively Coupled Thermal Plasma with C-H-O Systems

In this work, a two-dimensional chemically non-equilibrium (NCE) model has been developed for Ar inductively coupled thermal plasma (ICTP) with C-H-O system at atmospheric pressure from the viewpoint of plasma process and fuel combustion. Chemically non-equilibrium effects have been taken into account by solving mass conservation equations for each of 22 particles (including atoms, molecules, ions and electrons) considering convection, diffusion and net production effects. For the net production term, totally 198 chemical reactions were taken into account including dissociation, ionization and other chemical reactions and their backward reactions.