The Effect of Gaseous Diluents on Ozone Generation from Oxygen

Abstract

Ozone generation in a negative corona discharge has been experimentally investigated using both a pure oxygen and in binary mixtures of oxygen with several gases. The concentration of ozone (O3) in such mixtures is found to be dependent both on the input energy density η, dissipated in unit volume of gas mixture and on the type and the concentration of the additives. The experimentally measured dependencies of ozone concentration on the input energy density (O3) = f(η) have been fitted using the Vasiliev–Kobozev–Eremin formula and the specific rate coefficients for ozone formation Kf and ozone decomposition Kd have been calculated. Using Ar, N2 or CO2 as admixtures, an increase in the specific rate coefficient for ozone generation was observed for increasing concentrations of added gaseous impurity into oxygen. In contrast, admixtures with SF6 or CCl2F2 caused a substantial reduction of Kf values. The absolute values of ozone concentration at constant input energy density were observed to decrease with decreasing concentrations of oxygen in all mixtures.