Title :
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
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 kVpp up to 13 kVpp. 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;
Conference_Titel :
Power Electronics and Applications (EPE), 2013 15th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Lille
DOI :
10.1109/EPE.2013.6634416
