Bbc Brown, Boveri & Company, Limited

Gerard Kirsch

Peter Erni

A device and process for the generation of ozone using an ozone generator having two electrodes connected across the secondary winding of a high voltage transformer, the primary winding of which is connected to a converter which supplies thereto a square wave current of variable amplitude and variable frequency. A compensation coil is connected across either the primary winding or the secondary winding of the transformer. The ozone generator includes a solid dielectric and a gas path between its two electrodes. The inductance of the compensating choke and the operating frequency of the converter are selected such that the resonance frequency of the resonant circuit formed by the ozone generator and the compensation choke lies below the operating frequency of the converter current supply in any operating condition. In this way the degree of utilization of medium voltage converters of converter-fed ozone generators is significantly increased by connecting a compensation choke (6) in parallel to the ozone generator (5) and by dimensioning it suitably.

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Zurich, Switzerland

Gerard Kirsch