Dielectric Barrier Discharge for Ultraviolet Light Generation and Its Efficient Driving Inverter Circuit

  • Oleg, Kudryavtsev (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University) ;
  • Ahmed, Tarek (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University) ;
  • Nakaoka, Mutsuo (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University)
  • Published : 2004.06.01

Abstract

The efficient power MOSFET inverter applied for a simple and low cost power supply is proposed for driving the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) lamp load. For decades, the DBD phenomenon has been used for ozone gas production in industry. In this research, the ultraviolet and visible light sources utilizing the DBD lamp is considered as the load for solid-state high frequency power supply. It is found that the simple voltage-source single-ended quasi-resonant ZVS inverter with only one active power switch could effectively drive this load with the output power up to 700 W. The pulse density modulation based control scheme for the single-ended quasi-resonant ZVS inverter using a low voltage and high current power MOSFET switching device is proposed to provide a linear power regulation characteristic in the wide range 0-100% of the full power as compared with the conventional control based Royer type parallel resonant inverter type power supplies.

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