ABSTRACT: Purpose: This paper reviews the existing literature on plasma and plasma jets and attempts to describe the current and future applications of the same. Design/methodology/approach: A systematic literature review methodology was used. Keywords were used to search for relevant papers from scientific research databases and after an initial review, 42 papers were used for the literature review.
Findings: The literature review reveals that different types of plasma (thermal and non-thermal) as well as plasma jets (atmospheric pressure plasma jets and low-pressure plasma jets) have a wide range of applications in various industries such as production of bio-diesel fuel, materials processing, biomedicine including dentistry, and most notably, space travel.
Keywords: plasma, plasma jets, industrial applications, plasma propulsion, systematic review
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