A dynamic conductance model of fluorescent lamp for electronic ballast design simulation

Author

Loo, Ka Hong ; Stone, Dave A. ; Tozer, Richard C. ; Devonshire, Robin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, UK

Volume

20

Issue

5

fYear

2005

Firstpage

1178

Lastpage

1185

Abstract

A Spice-compatible dynamic conductance model of a fluorescent lamp for use in electronic ballast simulation is presented. The time-dependent conductance of the fluorescent lamp is derived from a plasma ionization balance equation that uses simplified descriptions of the physical processes within the lamp as its basis. The model has been designed to enable user-defined lamp radius, length, buffer gas pressure and cold-spot temperature as input parameters thus representing a valuable tool for ballast simulations. Simulation results are compared to experimental measurements and satisfactory agreement is achieved.

Keywords

SPICE; electric admittance; fluorescent lamps; lamp accessories; power engineering computing; SPICE; dynamic conductance; electronic ballast simulation; fluorescent lamp; gas discharge lamp; integrated circuit simulation program; plasma ionization; Computer simulation; Electron tubes; Electronic ballasts; Energy efficiency; Equations; Fluorescent lamps; Frequency; Ionization; Plasma measurements; Plasma temperature; Discharge model; electronic ballast; fluorescent lamp; fluorescent lamp model; gas discharge lamp; low-pressure discharge lamp;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Power Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0885-8993

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TPEL.2005.854057

Filename

1504890