We are applying 600VDC to a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor with a nickel electrode and CO2 and H2 as reactants to produce CO and H2O. Argon is added as internal standard. The reactor is made of fused quartz and the counter electrode is a silver coil around the tube. The current observed is 20-30 microamperes when the nickel electrode is set to -600VDC. Since the voltage is not high enough to produce electrical breakdown, can we assume that dark discharge plasma is responsible for this behavior?
From the data it provides: the area is in an unstable region: corona effect, in which a small variation in current can modify effects, I dare say yes. From the above, I am concerned that you mention the dark discharge and the area that I mention is located in the light discharge zone
José Falcón-Hernández , thanks for your answer. We thought about that possibility as well. However, an alternating critical voltage is required for that to happen and we are using 600 VDC.
refer to my paper of cold fusion.
metal surface potentian need to be positive for the cold fusion.
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