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

Pooya Davari, Firuz Zare, Arindam Ghosh
2013 2013 15th European Conference on Power Electronics and Applications (EPE)  
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
more » ... d results show the feasibility of finding an optimum operation point due to nonlinear behaviour of the DBD lamp.
doi:10.1109/epe.2013.6634416 fatcat:ck6rchtrbvd5rdsae5uytxhm5a