Natural Occurring Plasma

Plasma is a naturally occurring phenomena, on our planet plasma occurs naturally as lightning, and as the aurora-borialis. In space the internal material of suns and nebulae are considered to be in a plasma state.
 

Plasma definition

Plasma cannot be described as a solid liquid or a gas, and is often referred to as the forth state of matter. Plasma occurs when gas atoms are ionized. An atom is ionized when it is exposed to high enough energy to knock an electron out of its covalent bond.
This impact also creates a release of photons, light energy that then causes luminescence, or glow from the plasma, a common application of this is fluorescent strip or neon light.

When an atom is ionized it is said to be charged and stays in that state until recombination, (with an electron,) occurs and it returns to a neutral state. A true plasma is charged both positively and negatively and these charges create currents or magnetic fields within the plasma, these fields can be manipulated to provide beneficial effects for a variety of applications.

      How does plasma benefit our environment ?

Plasma as an industrial solution benefits our environment in many different ways. During any manufacturing process it is necessary to clean the material at various stages, the reasons for doing this are varied, to help bond the material to another, to help inks stick, to make paints not run off during painting, to help coatings not peel off, to sterilize and stop the spread of disease, or even just to look good. Cleaning generally means that you prevent the next manufacturing step from failing.

Plasma is totally environmentally friendly, it has generates no liquid waste and reaction takes place at a pressure below atmosphere, (a totally enclosed reaction). It uses only small quantities of naturally occurring gases and is simple to control. Plasma can be used to produce an atomically clean surface by removing contamination.

Plasma can also enhance or modify the surface characteristics of a material to give it new or super abilities, this can help for a large number of process's. The mechanism of this is that new radical molecules can be generated on the external surface of a component, thus enabling a better affinity or a greater rejection of  subsequent process or material.
 

Whatever the manufacturing process, whatever the application HTS Ltd. has extensive experience in tailoring money saving plasma applications across the full breadth of industry