Comparative Study of Pulsed Dielectric Barrier Discharges in Argon and Nitrogen at Atmospheric Pressure

Abstract

In this paper, the mechanisms and characteristics of the pulsed dielectric barrier discharges in Ar and N 2 at atmospheric pressure are analyzed and compared by means of numerical simulation based on the 1-D fluid model. Under different operating conditions, including gap width d g , dielectric thickness d s , and relative dielectric constant ε r , the important characteristic quantities of describing the discharge, i.e., maximum discharge current density J m , averaged electron density N e−ave , and averaged dissipated power density P ave , are observed and studied in detail. This paper gives the following significant results. In Ar, the discharge occurs after the gap voltage has reached its maximum and is in the form of two short discharge current density pulses. In N 2 , the discharge starts from the increase of the gap voltage and presents the smooth development in a longer time being nearly equal to the pulsewidth. For the two gases, J m , N e−ave , and P ave decrease with the increase of d g , and these characteristic quantities decrease with the increase of d s , or with the decrease of ε r . In addition, the discharges in Ar maintain in the atmospheric pressure glow discharge (APGD), but the discharges in N 2 operate in the varying discharge modes, including the APGD, the weak APGD, and the atmospheric pressure Townsend discharge. The development of the APGD in N 2 requires the smaller gap width, the thinner dielectric thickness, and the larger relative dielectric constant.Index Terms-Argon, atmospheric pressure, nitrogen, pulsed dielectric barrier discharge (DBD).

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