Effects of temperature and discharge parameters on ozone concentration of negative corona discharge

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Wang, Hai-jun | Sheng, Lian-xi | Xu, De-xuan

Affiliations: Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, College of Urban and Environmental Science, Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, China

Abstract: The relationship of the ozone generation and the heating power, corona wire surface temperature, discharge electrode and netting electrode was studied during the negative corona discharge. The experimental results showed that the ozone concentration reduced with applied voltage decrease. With heating power increase, the ozone concentration of unit current decreased at exponential rate and it almost change no longer over 0.40 W. Under given temperature, the lower the applied voltage was, the smaller the ozone concentration was; while under given applied voltages, only over 11 kV could decrease with the surface temperature increase. The ozone concentration decreased with the lengthening of corona wire, and could reduced to 10 ppb under experimental condition of 14.2 kV; it also decreased with the shortening of wire diameter,and could decrease 67% at best in the given condition. Moreover, it decreased with the increasing size of netting electrode mesh. At the anion current of 1.65 µA, the ozone concentration of 5.0×5.0 cm2 is only 41% of that of 3.3×3.3 cm2.

Keywords: ozone, negative corona discharge, anion current

Journal: Journal of Environmental Sciences, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 796-799, 2003