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Generation of high pressure homogeneous dielectric barrier discharge in air *

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2013

Naoki Osawa*
Affiliation:
Center for Electric, Optic and Energy Applications, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Ami Takashi
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Yoshio Yoshioka
Affiliation:
Office of Industry-University Collaboration, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
Ryoichi Hanaoka
Affiliation:
Center for Electric, Optic and Energy Applications, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
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Abstract

We succeeded in generating an atmospheric pressure Townsend discharge (APTD) in air by using a simple DBD device that consists of alumina barriers and plane electrodes. So far, we applied the APTD to an ozonizer and found that the ozone generation efficiency was higher by the APTD mode than by the conventional DBD mode in larger specific input energy region. It is well known that an operation under an optimized high gas pressure is advantageous for efficient ozone generation from air. In this paper, we investigated whether the Townsend discharge (TD) in dry air in high pressure up to 0.17 MPa can be generated or not. From the observation results of current waveforms and discharge photographs, we found that (1) the discharge currents flow continuously and have only one peak in every half cycle in all gas pressure and (2) filamentary discharges are not recognized between barriers in all gas pressure. These features completely agree with the features of the APTD we reported. Therefore, we concluded that our TD can be generated even in dry air in the pressure range of 0.1 and 0.17 MPa.

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© EDP Sciences, 2013

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Contribution to the Topical Issue “13th International Symposium on High Pressure Low Temperature Plasma Chemistry (Hakone XIII)”, Edited by Nicolas Gherardi, Henryca Danuta Stryczewska and Yvan Ségui.

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