{"title":"Modeling the electrical behavior of fluorescent lamps on the basis of a self-consistent collisional-radiative model","authors":"K. Loo, D. Stone, R. C. Tozer","doi":"10.1109/IAS.2004.1348691","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Due to the highly complex nature of fluorescent lamp discharge, its electrical behavior and interaction with ballast can only be fully investigated and understood in the framework of a self-consistent model. Collisional-radiative modeling provides the capability to describe in details the microscopic reactions in the discharge on the basis of three groups of continuity equations: particle balance, electron energy and gas temperature. This paper discusses the formulation of these equations and later applies them to modeling the lamp's electrical behavior in a ballast environment. Prototypes of the conventional magnetic ballast and half-bridge LCC inverter ballast were constructed to verify the model accuracy. The self-consistency of the model has enabled the computer design of lamp ballast for any given lamp parameters, that is: lamp radius, wall temperature, buffer gas pressure, power supply voltage or current, frequency and power.","PeriodicalId":131410,"journal":{"name":"Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 2004. 39th IAS Annual Meeting.","volume":"244 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Conference Record of the 2004 IEEE Industry Applications Conference, 2004. 39th IAS Annual Meeting.","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS.2004.1348691","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Due to the highly complex nature of fluorescent lamp discharge, its electrical behavior and interaction with ballast can only be fully investigated and understood in the framework of a self-consistent model. Collisional-radiative modeling provides the capability to describe in details the microscopic reactions in the discharge on the basis of three groups of continuity equations: particle balance, electron energy and gas temperature. This paper discusses the formulation of these equations and later applies them to modeling the lamp's electrical behavior in a ballast environment. Prototypes of the conventional magnetic ballast and half-bridge LCC inverter ballast were constructed to verify the model accuracy. The self-consistency of the model has enabled the computer design of lamp ballast for any given lamp parameters, that is: lamp radius, wall temperature, buffer gas pressure, power supply voltage or current, frequency and power.