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Silent Discharge Plasma (SDP) refers to a discharge occurring in an open space between two insulated electrodes connected to a source of high voltage alternating current. The discharge is often termed a ‘glow’ discharge because it does appear to be a continuous and uniformly glowing plasma region. This is not, in fact, the case and the discharge instead consists of a large number of microdischarges of short lifetime but high instantaneous currents. These are readily seen as spikes near the peaks of the current waveform when the current through the system is determined by a suitably fast response system. The average discharge lifetime has been estimated variously to be on the order of microseconds to nanoseconds with electron energies of 6–20 eV [Horvath et al. 1985; Kogelschatz et al. 1988].
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Neely, W.C., Newhouse, E.I., Clothiaux, E.J., Gross, C.A. (1993). Decomposition of Complex Molecules Using Silent Discharge Plasma Processing. In: Penetrante, B.M., Schultheis, S.E. (eds) Non-Thermal Plasma Techniques for Pollution Control. NATO ASI Series, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78476-7_22
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