Influence of vacuoles with gas–liquid inclusions on the thermobaric destruction conditions of natural quartz under dynamic heating in an RF-TICP torch system

In the present work, the turbulent mixing process of a polydisperse quartz particle flow with a plasma stream generated by a radio-frequency(RF) inductively coupled plasma torch was numerically studied. The thermobaric stress in the quartz particles under dynamic heating in a heterogeneous plasma flow was determined by a two-stage approximation approach. The effect of the presence of vacuoles in natural quartz on the particle thermobaric destruction conditions was studied. It was found that the ...