CaviPlasma: A plasma source capable of application-scale generation of plasma treated water for agriculture, aquaculture, and medicine
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | The newly emerged hydrodynamic cavitation plasma device called "CaviPlasma" breaks the limits of existing plasma generators offering the industrial-scale flow rate of 1-15 m3/h (laboratory devices) introducing peroxide-based chemistry into treated water, thus keeping the pH practically unchanged (typically within 0.5 pH difference margin). CaviPlasma combines hydro-mechanical effects of cavitation and electric discharge generated in cavitation cloud. The cavitation provides reduced-pressure environment of cavities (voids) for electric discharge inception and also helps in efficient dissolving/mixing of the products in the water as the cavities collapse, which could be highly beneficial considering the interfacial and liquid phase processes. The effects of CaviPlasma water treatment on its biocidal activity will be presented on the study of the successful remediation of cyanobacteria and algae from water, inactivation of pathogens collected from hospital environment surfaces or inactivation of the main rainbow trout pathogenic bacteria. |
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