Modern high-pressure discharge lamps are forced to provide instant light and hot relight capabilities—if possible at lower power units. A detailed understanding of the warm-up of high-pressure discharge lamps is therefore required. Complex fluid model codes were developed for the past years including more and more processes like two-dimensional treatment of convection trying to provide a more comprehensive and consistent description of high-pressure discharge lamps. However, there is a lack of experimental data to examine the performance of these models. This work provides a very complete set of geometrical, electrical, spectroscopic, and thermographic data according to the warm-up of a high-pressure mercury discharge lamp that is compared to the results of a state of the art fluid code. Quantitative agreement is achieved for single parameters like wall temperatures. But the paper also reveals the need for further investigations and improvements of the code.
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March 29 2011
Experimental and theoretical investigations on the warm-up of a high-pressure mercury discharge lamp
J. Zalach;
J. Zalach
a)
1
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
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Z. Araoud;
Z. Araoud
2Unité d’Étude des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs,
IPEIM
, rte de Kairouan, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
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K. Charrada;
K. Charrada
2Unité d’Étude des Milieux Ionisés et Réactifs,
IPEIM
, rte de Kairouan, 5019 Monastir, Tunisia
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St. Franke;
St. Franke
1
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
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H. Schoepp;
H. Schoepp
1
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
, Felix-Hausdorff-Str. 2, D-17489 Greifswald, Germany
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G. Zissis
G. Zissis
3
Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Énergie
, 118 rte Narbonne, Bât3R2, 31062 Toulouse, France
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Electronic mail: [email protected].
Phys. Plasmas 18, 033511 (2011)
Article history
Received:
December 14 2010
Accepted:
February 22 2011
Citation
J. Zalach, Z. Araoud, K. Charrada, St. Franke, H. Schoepp, G. Zissis; Experimental and theoretical investigations on the warm-up of a high-pressure mercury discharge lamp. Phys. Plasmas 1 March 2011; 18 (3): 033511. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3568830
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