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Plasma cutting system
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Principles of plasma cutting
What is plasma cutting?
This is a cutting system utilizing heat
generated by arc discharge between
the cutting object material and the
electrode inside the torch. Arc
discharge heat forms working gas
into the plasma state of high
temperature; the plasma jet of high
temperature and high-speed is blown
out from the nozzle; and the cutting
object material is fused to be cut.
What is plasma?
Heating a gas to a high temperature makes kinetic energy of its molecule or atom large, such
particles vigorously collide each other; electron inside the atom is taken away resulting in
positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons being mixed up; as a whole, each
charge offsets one another, producing a state of electrically neutral, which state is called
plasma. This plasma appears when a gas is heated to 5 to 7 thousand degrees or higher at the
atmospheric pressure.
What is thermal pinch effect?
A state where kinetic energy of positively charged ions and that of negatively charged
electrons are equal is called thermal equilibrium plasma. Under such a plasma state, lower
the temperature gets, lower the easiness in current flow (electric conductivity) gets. In arc
discharge, a current is flown at the plasma part formed between electrodes to generate
resistant heat there to hold a high temperature. If the plasma at the circumference of the
discharge part is cooled, electricity gets hard to flow there, and the current concentrates into
the core part. This phenomenon is called thermal pinch. In the plasma torch, an intensively
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cooled nozzle is used to squeeze the plasma generation into a narrow range to draw out this
effect.
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