Pub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2024.3450867
Yifan Wang;Lei Shi;Bo Yao;Zongyuan Liu;Kai Guo
The ablation of thermal protection materials during the re-entry of a hypersonic vehicle alters plasma sheath characteristics, significantly affecting the vehicle’s communication performance. Terahertz (THz) technology emerges as one of the effective potential solutions for overcoming the high electron density encountered during the traditional re-entry blackout period. This article investigates the transmission characteristics of THz waves in the plasma sheath under two typical ablation conditions: phenolic graphite and Teflon, considering the effects of alkali metal impurities and the mass fraction of ablation products. Our results show that the total alkali metal content significantly increases the electron number density, with peak electron densities about an order of magnitude higher than those of Teflon. The collision frequency in phenolic graphite material varies nonlinearly due to differences in ablation product mass fractions and exhibits trends opposite to those of Teflon with altitude, with maximum deviations exceeding 50 GHz. Propagation attenuation analysis indicates that the minimum frequency of EM waves should be above 0.13 THz to mitigate the impact of alkali metal content on communication quality. In practical applications, selecting materials with low alkali metal content proves effective, allowing communication frequencies to be reduced to as low as 0.03 THz with Teflon to meet communication demands.
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Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1109/tps.2024.3436054
A. P. Shah, B. J. Sporer, G. V. Dowhan, K. W. Elliott, M. Krishnan, N. M. Jordan, R. D. McBride
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Pub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2024.3451017
Mengmei Zhang;Kun Shen;Haoxiang Chen;Mengyao Wu
Ion tube is a type of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) device widely applied in the field of air pollution treatment. The operational state of ion tube is a crucial factor that affects the efficiency of air pollution treatment. Manual inspection is the primary method for monitoring the state of ion tube. This approach suffers from issues such as time-consuming, labor-intensive, and heavily reliant on personal experience. To achieve automation and intelligence of fault diagnosis for ion tube, this article uses a neural network to design an online measurement scheme of ion tube’s Lissajous figure, the nonlinear relationship of signals from the low-voltage side to high-voltage side of the ion tube transformer is fit by neural network. And based on the measured low-voltage side signals, the ion tube’s Lissajous figure is calculated by the designed neural network. Moreover, the convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to construct the fault diagnosis scheme for ion tube and the ion tube’s Lissajous figure is classified by a two-level classification scheme. The primary classification CNN distinguishes between punctured and nonpunctured ion tube, and then the secondary classification CNN categorizes nonpunctured ion tube into brand-new, semi-new, and damaged ion tube. The experimental results indicate that the designed online measurement technology of ion tube’s Lissajous figure has the same measurement accuracy as traditional methods and does not require oscilloscopes, high-voltage probes, and external measurement capacitors. And the designed fault diagnosis technology for ion tube effectively distinguishes four fault states of ion tube with high accuracy.
{"title":"Research on Fault Diagnosis Technology for Ion Tube Based on Neural Network","authors":"Mengmei Zhang;Kun Shen;Haoxiang Chen;Mengyao Wu","doi":"10.1109/TPS.2024.3451017","DOIUrl":"10.1109/TPS.2024.3451017","url":null,"abstract":"Ion tube is a type of dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) device widely applied in the field of air pollution treatment. The operational state of ion tube is a crucial factor that affects the efficiency of air pollution treatment. Manual inspection is the primary method for monitoring the state of ion tube. This approach suffers from issues such as time-consuming, labor-intensive, and heavily reliant on personal experience. To achieve automation and intelligence of fault diagnosis for ion tube, this article uses a neural network to design an online measurement scheme of ion tube’s Lissajous figure, the nonlinear relationship of signals from the low-voltage side to high-voltage side of the ion tube transformer is fit by neural network. And based on the measured low-voltage side signals, the ion tube’s Lissajous figure is calculated by the designed neural network. Moreover, the convolutional neural network (CNN) is used to construct the fault diagnosis scheme for ion tube and the ion tube’s Lissajous figure is classified by a two-level classification scheme. The primary classification CNN distinguishes between punctured and nonpunctured ion tube, and then the secondary classification CNN categorizes nonpunctured ion tube into brand-new, semi-new, and damaged ion tube. The experimental results indicate that the designed online measurement technology of ion tube’s Lissajous figure has the same measurement accuracy as traditional methods and does not require oscilloscopes, high-voltage probes, and external measurement capacitors. And the designed fault diagnosis technology for ion tube effectively distinguishes four fault states of ion tube with high accuracy.","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"52 6","pages":"2313-2322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1109/tps.2024.3410644
Joe O. Allen, Shail Desai, Simon Freethy, Keith Hawkins, Mark A. Henderson, Carsten Lechte, Jonathan Pearl, Burkhard Plaum, Helen Webster
{"title":"Design Update on the MAST-Upgrade Microwave Heating and Current Drive System Launchers","authors":"Joe O. Allen, Shail Desai, Simon Freethy, Keith Hawkins, Mark A. Henderson, Carsten Lechte, Jonathan Pearl, Burkhard Plaum, Helen Webster","doi":"10.1109/tps.2024.3410644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/tps.2024.3410644","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":450,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2024.3450729
Yue Wu;Jian-cang Su;Hao-Ran Zhang;Xu-Dong Qiu;Bin-Xiong Yu;Liang Zhao;Shuai Shao;Ming-Zhu Gao;Jia-Ru Shi
A method of measuring field emission current under high-voltage (HV) pulse is proposed. The method makes it more convenient to study electron emission under HV pulse. Based on the Kirchhoff law, this method can fundamentally solve the problem, which the emission current is usually covered up by the displacement current. In addition, the method can ensure the safety of oscilloscope and the accuracy of the measurement when the gap gets breakdown. The resolution analysis of this method is carried out. The resolution is positively correlated with the output resistance and negatively correlated with the summation of output capacitance and electrodes capacitance. The resolution, under microsecond and millisecond HV pulse, can achieve $mu $