Pulsed processing by cold plasma, applied to industrial emission control.

A promising pollution control technology is cold plasma driven chemical processing. The plasma is a pulsed electric gas discharge inside a near atmospheric-pressure-temperature reactor. The system is energized by a continuous stream of very short high-voltage pulses.

Experimental setup for temporally and spatially resolved ICCD imaging of (sub)nanosecond streamer plasma.

Streamer discharges are efficient non-thermal plasmas for air purification and can be generated in wire-cylinder electrode structures (the plasma reactor). When (sub)nanosecond high-voltage pulses are used to generate the plasma, components like a plasma reactor behave as transmission lines, where transmission times and reflections become important. We want to visually study the influence of these transmission-line effects on the streamer development in the reactor.

Current multiplication by using multiple thyristors.

This paper presents a circuit topology to obtain current multiplication by using multiple thyristors. To gain insight into this technique, an equivalent circuit model is introduced. Proper operation of the topology was demonstrated by experiments on a small-scale setup including three thyristors.

A high-voltage pulse transformer with a modular ferrite core.

A high ratio (winding ratio of 1:80) pulse transformer with a modular ferrite core was developed for a repetitive resonant charging system. The magnetic core is constructed from 68 small blocks of ferrites, glued together by epoxy resin. This allows a high degree of freedom in choosing core shape and size.