A plasma torch is a kind of equipment that utilizes an electric arc to dissociate a gas and transfer an electric energy to the gas to generate very high temperature flame. KHNP-CRI has been developed the Plasma Torch Melter (PTM) to reduce radioactive waste disposal volumes and drop the radiation level of wastes. As you guess, there is required condition for proper start-up operation like current, voltage, plasma gas flow, cooling water flow, temperature in melter and so on. Thus, the optimum start-up operation condition of plasma torch will be estimated experimentally in this paper.

• HyungJun Kim(KEPCO Korea Plant Service & Engineering (KEPCO KPS)) Corresponding author
• Sunghoon Hong(Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) Central Research Institute (KHNP-CRI))