Maximization of the working domain of an Atmospheric Pressure Townsend Discharge (APTD) using a current-source static converter

Autor: Hubert Piquet, Xavier Bonnin, M. C. Bouzidi, Nicolas Naudé, Antoine Belinger, Nicolas Gherardi
Přispěvatelé: LAboratoire PLasma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Matériaux et Procédés Plasmas (LAPLACE-MPP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Groupe ENergie Electrique et SYStémique (LAPLACE-GENESYS), Pistre, Karine
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: HAL
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Journal of Physics: Conference Series, IOP Publishing, 2014, 550, pp.012044. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/550/1/012044⟩
ISSN: 1742-6596
1742-6588
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/550/1/012044
Popis: The objective of this paper is to present the implementation of a square- wave current inverter power supply, and to describe its effect on the working domain of an Atmospheric Pressure Townsend Discharge (ATPD) in nitrogen. The results show that it allows a substantial increase of the percentage of time during which the discharge is ON (on-time) and therefore of the power delivered to the discharge, reaching almost 10 W/cm2 in pure nitrogen. Moreover, the increase of the on-time of the discharge implies a decrease of the extinction off-time between two discharges, and thus an increase of the memory effect from one discharge to the following one, as it is monitored by using electrical and optical measurements. This leads to a larger working domain of the ATPD, even when adding impurities in nitrogen.
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