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Une lampe à décharge est une lampe électrique constituée d'un tube ou d'une ampoule en verre remplie de gaz ou de vapeur métallique, sous haute ou basse pression, au travers duquel on fait passer un courant électrique, il s'ensuit une conversion en photons donc de la lumière. La couleur de la lumière émise par luminescence, par ces lampes dépend du gaz utilisé parmi lesquels :

le néon donne une couleur rouge ;
le mercure s'approche du bleu tout en produisant une quantité d'ultraviolet importante ;
le sodium rayonne dans le orange ; *le xénon est légèrement grisé à gris clair ou à forte intensité bleu-vert très vif à bleu.

Principe de fonctionnement Les molécules du gaz utilisé ont la faculté de s'ioniser lorsqu'elles sont soumises à la différence de potentiel créée entre les électrodes situées de chaque côté de la lampe. Les électrons libérés sont attirés par l'électrode positive – nommée cathode – et les ions positifs par l'autre, nommée anode. Un courant électri

DC Breakdown in gases for complex geometries from high vacuum to atmospheric pressure

Ralph Schnyder

This thesis presents an experimental investigation and a numerical simulation of breakdown in a ring assembly. Previous works are mostly limited to breakdown in simple geometries such as parallel plates or pin-to-plate. Here we discuss the effect of more complex geometries for DC breakdown in gases over a large pressure range from high vacuum to atmospheric pressure. The breakdown voltage versus pressure curves shows a similar shape as Paschen curves but with a wide flat plateau between the low and high pressure thresholds. The low pressure threshold determines the limit between gas and vacuum discharges. Additional optical emission spectroscopy confirms the presence of two different kinds of discharges: Gas and vacuum dis- charges. Moreover the global shape of the gas breakdown voltage curve in the ring assembly has been fully understood by a complementary numerical simulation. Fur- ther current-voltage study showed that voltage only is the most significant factor for breakdown and that current determines the kind of discharge after breakdown. As the breakdown voltages are lower for gas discharges than for vacuum discharges, a numerical simulation model for gas breakdown using a fluid model was developed in order to support the experimental conclusions. Starting as simple as possible with par- allel plates (1 mm and 100 mm gap width representing approximatively the shortest and longest electric field path length in the ring assembly geometry) and extending to double gap and multi-gap geometries, an understanding of the overall shape of the breakdown voltage versus pressure curve is established: The high (low) pressure thresholds of gas discharge are determined by the shortest (longest) electric field path length in a complex geometry. Moreover, the availability of multiple path lengths leads to a breakdown voltage minimum over a wide range of intermediate pressure because breakdown can occur in the most favorable gap. Finally, the numerical simulation in the ring assembly shows the importance of parameters such as the secondary electron emission coefficient which play a major role in determining the breakdown voltage value.

EPFL2013

Inputs of disinfection by-products to the marine environment from various industrial activities: Comparison to natural production

Jin Jiang, Urs von Gunten

Oxidative treatment of seawater in coastal and shipboard installations is applied to control biofouling and/or minimize the input of noxious or invasive species into the marine environment. This treatment allows a safe and efficient operation of industrial installations and helps to protect human health from infectious diseases and to maintain the biodiversity in the marine environment. On the downside, the application of chemical oxidants generates undesired organic compounds, so-called disinfection by-products (DBPs), which are discharged into the marine environment. This article provides an overview on sources and quantities of DBP inputs, which could serve as basis for hazard analysis for the marine environment, human health and the atmosphere. During oxidation of marine water, mainly brominated DBPs are generated with bromoform (CHBr3) being the major DBP. CHBr3 has been used as an indicator to compare inputs from different sources. Total global annual volumes of treated seawater inputs resulting from cooling processes of coastal power stations, from desalination plants and from ballast water treatment in ships are estimated to be 470-800 x 109 m(3), 46 x 10(9) m(3) and 3.5 x 10(9) m(3), respectively. Overall, the total estimated anthropogenic bromoform production and discharge adds up to 13.5-21.8 x 10(6) kg/a (kg per year) with contributions of 11.8-20.1 x 10(6) kg/a from cooling water treatment, 0.89 x 10(6) kg/a from desalination and 0.86 x 10(6) kg/a from ballast water treatment. This equals approximately 2-6% of the natural bromoform emissions from marine water, which is estimated to be 385-870 x 10(6) kg/a.

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

GRUN: an observation-based global gridded runoff dataset from 1902 to 2014

Gionata Ghiggi, Vincent Humphrey

Freshwater resources are of high societal relevance, and understanding their past variability is vital to water management in the context of ongoing climate change. This study introduces a global gridded monthly reconstruction of runoff covering the period from 1902 to 2014. In situ streamflow observations are used to train a machine learning algorithm that predicts monthly runoff rates based on antecedent precipitation and temperature from an atmospheric reanalysis. The accuracy of this reconstruction is assessed with cross-validation and compared with an independent set of discharge observations for large river basins. The presented dataset agrees on average better with the streamflow observations than an ensemble of 13 state-of-the art global hydrological model runoff simulations. We estimate a global long-term mean runoff of 38 452 km(3)yr(-1) in agreement with previous assessments. The temporal coverage of the reconstruction offers an unprecedented view on large-scale features of runoff variability in regions with limited data coverage, making it an ideal candidate for large-scale hydro-climatic process studies, water resource assessments, and evaluating and refining existing hydrological models. The paper closes with example applications fostering the understanding of global freshwater dynamics, interannual variability, drought propagation and the response of runoff to atmospheric teleconnections. The GRUN dataset is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.9228176 (Ghiggi et al., 2019).

Copernicus GmbH2019

DC Breakdown in gases for complex geometries from high vacuum to atmospheric pressure

Ralph Schnyder

EPFL2013