The electrodeless discharge lamp: a prospective tool for photochemistry

Citation: Petr Klan, Jaromir Literak, Milan Hajek (1991) The electrodeless discharge lamp: a prospective tool for photochemistry. Journal of photochemistry and photobiology A: Chemistry 128 (RSS)
DOI (original publisher): 10.1016/S1010-6030(99)00165-3
Semantic Scholar (metadata): 10.1016/S1010-6030(99)00165-3
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Summary

This paper describes a simple photochemical reactor developed and tested for photochemical reactions. It consists of electrode-less discharge lamp (MWL) in a commercial microwave (MW) oven. This technique can be helpful in studying simultaneous effects of both UV/VIS and MW irradiations on photochemical reactions.

Use of MWL has been studied by:

1)Operating MW power and temperature influence on the lamp – lamp produced enough heat to boil liquids, even transparent liquids in MW field.

2)Solvent polarity influence – Polar solvents started to boil too quickly making application of MWL difficult.

3)MWL heating capabilities - Initiation of polar liquids needed more energy whereas, MWL initiated in non-polar solvents at every power.

4)Dependence of the photoreaction efficiency on MW power output – increase in efficiency of reaction was with increase in power output.