Analysing DBD plasma lamp intensity versus power consumption using a push-pull pulsed power supply

Author

Davari, Pooya ; Zare, Firuz ; Ghosh, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Queensland Univ. of Technol., Brisbane, QLD, Australia

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

8

Abstract

In this paper characteristic of a DBD (Dielectric Barrier Discharge) plasma lamp is investigated based on the lamp intensity and power consumption. A pulsed power supply with controllable parameters based on a push-pull converter is developed for lamp excitation at different voltage levels and repetition rate. The experimentations were conducted for 28 different operating points with the frequency range of 2 kHz to 15 kHz at output voltage levels of between 7.4 kV_pp up to 13 kV_pp. The obtained results show the feasibility of finding an optimum operation point due to nonlinear behaviour of the DBD lamp.

Keywords

discharge lamps; power consumption; power convertors; pulsed power supplies; DBD plasma lamp; DBD plasma lamp intensity; dielectric barrier discharge plasma lamp; lamp intensity; power consumption; push-pull converter; push-pull pulsed power supply; Discharges (electric); Plasmas; Power demand; Power measurement; Voltage control; Voltage measurement; DBD lamp; Pulsed power supply; high voltage pulse; plasma;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), 2013 15th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Lille

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EPE.2013.6634416

Filename

6634416