AOTs and Solar Energy for Air, Water and Soil Treatment

Pawłat, Joanna; Stryczewska, Henryka Danuta; Ebihara, Kenji; Mitsugi, Fumiaki; Sung, T.

doi:10.14723/tmrsj.39.117

Cited by 3 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…In recent times, the greatest potential opportunities lies in the use of renewable energy sources, solar energy in particular. It can be used to power mobile plasma installations for the treatment of water, air and soil, especially in highly sunny areas, in order to avoid environmentally harmful chemical technologies [31,32].…”

Section: Pollution Of Air Water and Soilmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Promising alternatives to removing pollutants from gases and liquids are technologies that use non-thermal plasma generated by a gliding arc discharge GAD [1,17,31,32,41,47,51,59,63]. Plasma reactors can be used both to remove point pollutants, such as factory and utility chimneys, and to control pollution caused by traffic [18,38,47].…”

Section: Selected Air Purification and Gaseous Media Cleaning Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the first two decades of the 21st century, many publications were published, presenting research confirming the possibility of using superconductivity [1][2][3][4] and plasma technologies [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] in the processes of energy production, processing and distribution [24][25][26][27][28], and in environmental protection processes whose main componentsair, water and soil-degrade year by year [29][30][31][32].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

Plasma and Superconductivity for the Sustainable Development of Energy and the Environment

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The main aim of this review is to present the current state of the research and applications of superconductivity and plasma technologies in the field of energy and environmental protection. An additional goal is to attract the attention of specialists, university students and readers interested in the state of energy and the natural environment and in how to protect them and ensure their sustainable development. Modern energy systems and the natural environment do not develop in a sustainable manner, thus providing future generations with access to energy that is generated from renewable sources and that does not degrade the natural environment. Most of the energy technologies used today are based on non-renewable sources. Power contained in fuel is irretrievably lost, and the quality of the energy is lowered. It is accompanied by the emissions of fossil fuel combustion products into the atmosphere, which pollutes the natural environment. Environmental problems, such as the production of gaseous and solid pollutants and their emission into the atmosphere, climate change, ozone depletion and acid rains, are discussed. For the problem of air pollution, the effects of combustion products in the form of carbon oxides, sulfur and nitrogen compounds are analyzed. The plasma and superconductivity phenomena, as well as their most important parameters, properties and classifications, are reviewed. In the case of atmospheric pressure plasma generation, basic information about technological gas composition, pressure, discharge type, electromagnetic field specification, electrode geometry, voltage supply systems, etc., are presented. For the phenomenon of superconductivity, attention is mainly paid to the interdependencies between Tc, magnetic flux density Bc and current density Jc parameters. Plasma technologies and superconductivity can offer innovative and energy-saving solutions for power engineering and environmental problems through decreasing the effects of energy production, conversion and distribution for the environment and by reductions in power losses and counteracting energy quality degradation. This paper presents an overview of the application of technologies using plasma and superconductivity phenomena in power engineering and in environmental protection processes. This review of plasma technologies, related to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and the transformation and valorization of industrial waste for applications in energy and environmental engineering, is carried out. In particular, the most plasma-based approaches for carbon oxides, sulfur and nitrogen compounds removal are discussed. The most common plasma reactors used in fuel reforming technologies, such as dielectric barrier discharge, microwave discharge and gliding-arc discharge, are described. The advantages of solid waste treatment using plasma arc techniques are introduced. Applications of superconductors for energy generation, conversion and transmission can be divided into two main groups with respect to the conducted current (DC and AC) and into three groups with respect to the employed property (zero resistivity, ideal magnetism/flux trapping and quench transition). Among the superconductivity applications of electrical machines, devices for improving energy quality and storage and high field generation are described. An example that combines the phenomena of hot plasma and superconductivity is thermonuclear fusion. It is a hope for solving the world’s energy problems and for creating a virtually inexhaustible, sustainable and waste-free source of energy for many future generations.

show abstract

Section: Pollution Of Air Water and Soilmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Selected Air Purification and Gaseous Media Cleaning Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Plasma and Superconductivity for the Sustainable Development of Energy and the Environment

2022

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The latter is represented by the author of this review, who, together with a team from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnology of the Lublin University of Technology, for over 30 years conducts research on the generation of non-thermal plasma by means of electrical discharges, in particular on the power supply systems of these special energy receivers, in cooperation with the above-mentioned representatives of the basic and applied sciences. The research has resulted in many monographs, publications, doctorates and patents, most of which are cited in this review [9,[11][12][13][14][15][16][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30]34,36,37,[41][42][43][44][45][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]55,[57][58][59][60][61][65][66][67][68][71][72]…”

Section: Conflicts Of Interestmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They produce strongly oxidizing agents, such as OH*, H*, O*, O3, and hydrogen peroxide H 2 O 2 . Moreover, the strong electric fields of electric discharges and UV radiation are also lethal to several kinds of microorganisms in water [5,11];…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supply Systems of Non-Thermal Plasma Reactors. Construction Review with Examples of Applications

Stryczewska

2020

Applied Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A review of the supply systems of non-thermal plasma reactors (NTPR) with dielectric barrier discharge (DBD), atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJ) and gliding arc discharge (GAD) was performed. This choice is due to the following reasons: these types of electrical discharges produce non-thermal plasma at atmospheric pressure, the reactor design is well developed and relatively simple, the potential area of application is large, especially in environmental protection processes and biotechnologies currently under development, theses reactors can be powered from similar sources using non-linear transformer magnetic circuits and power electronics systems, and finally, these plasma reactors and their power supply systems, as well as their applications are the subject of research conducted by the author of the review and her team from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Electrotechnology of the Lublin University of Technology, Poland.

show abstract

Applications of Plasma Produced with Electrical Discharges in Gases for Agriculture and Biomedicine

Stryczewska

Boiko

2022

Applied Sciences

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The use of thermal and non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma to solve problems related to agriculture and biomedicine is the focus of this paper. Plasma in thermal equilibrium is used where heat is required. In agriculture, it is used to treat soil and land contaminated by the products of biomass, plastics, post-hospital and pharmaceutical waste combustion, and also by ecological phenomena that have recently been observed, such as droughts, floods and storms, leading to environmental pollution. In biomedical applications, thermal plasma is used in so-called indirect living tissue treatment. The sources of thermal plasma are arcs, plasma torches and microwave plasma reactors. In turn, atmospheric pressure cold (non-thermal) plasma is applied in agriculture and biomedicine where heat adversely affects technological processes. The thermodynamic imbalance of cold plasma makes it suitable for organic syntheses due its low power requirements and the possibility of conducting chemical reactions in gas at relatively low and close to ambient temperatures. It is also suitable in the treatment of living tissues and sterilisation of medical instruments made of materials that are non-resistant to high temperatures. Non-thermal and non-equilibrium discharges at atmospheric pressure that include dielectric barrier discharges (DBDs) and atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs), as well as gliding arc (GAD), can be the source of cold plasma. This paper presents an overview of agriculture and soil protection problems and biomedical and health protection problems that can be solved with the aid of plasma produced with electrical discharges. In particular, agricultural processes related to water, sewage purification with ozone and with advanced oxidation processes, as well as those related to contaminated soil treatment and pest control, are presented. Among the biomedical applications of cold plasma, its antibacterial activity, wound healing, cancer treatment and dental problems are briefly discussed.

show abstract

AOTs and Solar Energy for Air, Water and Soil Treatment

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Plasma and Superconductivity for the Sustainable Development of Energy and the Environment

Plasma and Superconductivity for the Sustainable Development of Energy and the Environment

Supply Systems of Non-Thermal Plasma Reactors. Construction Review with Examples of Applications

Applications of Plasma Produced with Electrical Discharges in Gases for Agriculture and Biomedicine

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About