Breakdown of air over a water surface stressed by a perpendicular alternating electric field, in the presence of a dielectric barrier

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 68-75

  Robinson, James A ^a   Bergougnou, Maurice A ^b   Cairns, William L ^a   Peter Castle, G S ^b   Inculet, Ion I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Trojan Technologies Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR; ELECTRIC FIELD EFFECTS; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRODES; FREQUENCIES; OZONE; SURFACE PHENOMENA; WATER;

ALTERNATING CURRENT FIELD; FIELD INTENSIFICATION; OZONE GENERATOR; WATER SURFACE;

ELECTRIC BREAKDOWN;

EID: 0033905437     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/28.821798     Document Type: Article

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