Quasi-stationary numerical model of the dielectric barrier discharge

Proc. ESA Annual Meeting on Electrostatics 2013 14tensity, space charge distribution, surface charge accumulation, and total absorbed current.Sensitivity analysis of voltage and frequency level has been carried out in order toinvestigate the time variation of the discharge. The results show the behavior of the coronacurrent and space charge density for sinusoidal voltage at different frequencies andvoltage levels. In the basic model, the current shifting in a system with a dielectricbarrierl was shown based on the effect of the reverse electric field produced by surfacecharge accumulation. Also it was shown that for higher frequencies a combination ofpositive and negative ions have contributions on to the current generation. In this studythe shape of the current waveform for both positive and negative voltage half cycles havethe same shape because of the fact that this is based on the single species glow dielectricdischarge. So, there is no sign of fast rise Trichel like pulses in the negative half cycle.By sensitivity analysis on the voltage level, it was also shown that as expected, largerinput voltage results in a larger current in the circuit. The average current depends on thefrequency as well and increases as the frequency of input voltage increases.REFERENCES[1] Ulrich Kogelschatz, Dielectric-barrier Discharges: Their History, Discharge Physics, and Industrial Applications,Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Vol. 23, No. 1, March 2003.[2] B. Eliasson, U. Kogelschatz, Non-equilibrium Volume Plasma Chemical Processing, IEEE Transactionon Plasma science, Vol. 19, No. 6, December 1991.[3] Ulrich Kogelschatz, Filamentary, Patterned, and Diffuse Barrier Discharges, IEEE Transactions on PlasmaScience, Vol. 30, No. 4, August 2002.[4] S. Kanazawa, M. Kogoma, T. Moriwaki, S. Okazaki, Stable glow plasma at atmospheric pressure, Journalof Physics D: Applied Physics Vol. 21, No. 5, 1988.[5] L. Yang, Y. Hao, E. Tu, X. Wang, J. Chen, Mechanism and Characteristic of Dielectric Barrier MultipulseGlow Discharge in Helium at Atmospheric Pressure, Proceedings of the 9th International Conferenceon Properties and Applications of Dielectric Materials, July 2009.[6] R. Gouri, N. Zouzou, A. Tilmatine, L. Dascalescu, Enhancement of submicron particle electrostatic precipitationusing dielectric barrier discharge in wire to square tube configuration, Journal of electrostatic,2012.[7] B. Dramane, N. Zouzou, E. Moreau, G. Touchard, Electrostatic precipitation of submicron particles usinga DBD in axisymmetric and planar configurations, IEEE transactions on Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation,Vol. 6, No. 2, April 2009.[8] H. Tsubone, J. Ueno, B. Komeili, S. Minami, G.D. Harvel, K. Urashima, C.Y. Ching, J.S. Chang, Flowcharacteristics of dc wire-non-parallel plate electro-hydrodynamic gas pumps, Journal of Electrostatics,September 2008.[9] J.S. Chang, H. Tsubone, Y.N. Chun, A.A. Berezin, K. Urashima, Mechanism of eletrohydrodynamicallyinduced flow in a wire-non-parallel plate electrode type gas pump, Journal of Electrostatics, 2009.[10] F. Massines, A. Rabehi, P. Decomps, R. B. Gadri, P. Ségur, C. Mayoux, Experimental and theoreticalstudy of a glow discharge at atmospheric pressure controlled by dielectric barrier, J. Appl. Phys., 1998.[11] P. Sattari, G.S.P. Castle, K. Adamiak, FEM-FCT Based Dynamic Simulation of Corona Discharge inPoint-Plane Configuration, Conf. Presentation – P1.17[12] J. S. Shanga, P. G. Huang, Modeling of ac dielectric barrier discharge, Journal of Applied Physics, June2010.[13] K. Adamiak and P. Atten, “Simulation of corona discharge in point-plane configuration,” J. ofElectrostat., vol. 61, 2004.[14] W. Breazeal, K. M. Flynn, and E. G. Gwinn, Static and dynamic two-dimensional patterns in selfextinguishingdischarge avalanches , Physical Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, August 1995.[15] N. Sato, Discharge current induced by the motion of charged particles, J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys., 1980.