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Advanced Ozone Generation

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Process Technologies for Water Treatment

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Ozone was discovered in 1839 by C.F. Schönbein who studied the electrolytic decomposition of water. It took more than two decades of vehement scientific dispute before the constitution of this new substance was clearly identified as a three-atomic molecule containing only oxygen, namely O3 (J.L. Soret 1865). About the same time in 1857, Werner von Siemens found out that ozone could also be generated in gas discharges and thus laid the foundations for modern industrial large-scale ozone production. This article will concentrate on the different aspects of ozone generation in gas discharges. Schönbein’s idea of generating ozone by electrolysis has led to the development of modern electrochemical ozone generators for special applications (cf. Stucki and Baumann).

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Kogelschatz, U. (1988). Advanced Ozone Generation. In: Process Technologies for Water Treatment. Earlier Brown Boveri Symposia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8556-1_9

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