Study of the Mechanism of Interaction of Microwave Plasma Discharge with Solutions of Organic Substances

Abstract

This paper reports about results describing the mechanism of oxidation-reduction reactions occurring in the microwave plasma interaction with organic compounds solutions. Air and argon were used as the plasma gases in the experiments on disrupture of aqueous liquid organic compounds. Application of inversible redox indicator of methylene blue (MB) showed that disrupture of organic substances in microwave plasma was based on redox reactions. It was found that MB highest efficiency in the solution took place when air plasma-supporting gas was used.