The Academy of Sciences of the Czech rebublic - ASCR


Power Supply
Power supply and water supply unit
  • D-C power supply CKD 2300 with fully controlled thyristor rectifier - 546 V, 1 000 A, transformer 315 kVA
  • D-C power supply Skoda Plzen with fully controlled thyristor rectifier - 600 V, 600 A, transformer 400 kVA
  • Choke 7 mH

 

Systems of Water Stabilized Plasma Torch WSP® and Hybrid Gas/Water Plasma Torch WSP®H
  • 2 water supply units with regulation of input and output pressure and with automatic mnitoring of measured quantities
  • Plasma torch WSP 500 with rotating anode and consumable cathode
  • Plasma torch 160 kW with nozzle anode and fixed cathode
  • Hybrid liquid-gas plasma torch 50 - 160 kW with rotating anode and fixed cathode

 

DC Arc Gas Plasma Torch Plasmatechnik with Plasma Gun F4 - Ar, N2, H2, He
DC Arc Gas Plasma Torches up to 50 kW - Ar, N2, H2
 
Reactor PLASGAS for Treatment of Waste and Biomass in Steam Plasma - 160 kW
  • Computer control of operation
  • Monitoring of operation
  • Reaction gas diagnostics

 

Reactor for Low Pressure Thermal Plasma Jet Diagnostics (1 - 100 kPa)
System of Measurement and Data Acquisition
System of measurement and data acquisition
  • Fast Response measurements
    • Digital oscilloscope Tektronix TDS420, 4 channels, max. sampling frequency 100 Ms/s, A/D 8 bit, 60 000 samples/channel
    • Digital oscilloscope Tektronix TDS420, 4 channels, max. sampling frequency 100 Ms/s, A/D 8 bit, 120 000 samples/channel
    • digital osciloscope LeCroy LT264M, 4 channels, 350 MHz, 1GS/s
    • 2 transient recorders ELSY type TR410, 4 channels, max. sampling frequency 10 Ms/s, A/D 8 bit, 16 000 samples/channel
  • Slow Response Measurements and Control of Experimental System
    • 2 systems based on PLC Allen-Bradley SLC500, software RS Logix500. Vizualization using software RSView32 (Rockwell Automation).
    • Control of water system, measurement and data acquisition of 8 temperatures, 3 pressures, 4 water flow rates, automatic evaluation of power balance
    • Control of power supply, measurement and acquisition of electrical quantities
    • Control and synchronisation of diagnostic measurements
 
Plasma Diagnostics
Optical and spectroscopic plasma diagnostic experiments
  • OMA system with spectrograph Jobin Yvon with linear CCD
  • Spectrograph Jobin Yvon with matrix CCD
  • Schlieren system with pulsed Nd laser - exposure time 20 ns
  • System of moving electric probes
  • Enthalpy probe TEKNA
  • Quadrupole mass spectrometer Balzers
  • Short shutter camera Sensicam PCO Computer Optics, multiple exposure, exposure time 100 ns - 1 ms
  • Short shutter camera Flashcam PCO Computer Optics, multiple exposure, exposure time 1 µs - 1ms
  • Piezoelectric pressure probes Kistler
  • Array of high-frequency photo-diodes (10 MHz)