Effective corona discharge and ozone generation from a wire-plate discharge system with a slit dielectric barrier

A new wire-plate-type discharge system, with a slit dielectric barrier, has been proposed and investigated by focusing on the generation of ozone and the discharges on the slit barrier. This wire-plate-type discharge system, with a slit barrier, can generate a corona discharge twice, once from the corona wire electrode and again from the surface and the slits of the slit barrier. As a result, this proposed wire-plate-type discharge system, with the slit barrier, can produce much more ozone than without the slit barrier. The discharge mechanism of the wire-plate-type discharge system, with the slit barrier, would be hard to arc discharge and to break the system down directly because of the blocking action of the slit dielectric barrier. This proposed wire-plate-type discharge system, with the slit barrier, may be useful as an effective means for removing pollutant gases.