Recently the non-thermal plasma is applied in many industrial processes, like material processing and new material manufacturing for microelectronics and nanotechnologies, wastes utilization and combustion, flue gas treatment, disinfection and sterilization. Technologies based on non-thermal plasma allow treatment of organic materials, like rubber, fabrics, biomaterials, living tissues, bacteria, fungi, spores, and they are ecologically justified alternatives to conventional chemicals’ based methods. Plasma devices can be also applied in agriculture for conditioning of plants and growing media and in food industry to decontaminate raw material and modify food packages.
Non-thermal plasma can be produced by electrical discharges. Different types of discharges could be taken into account for industrial plasma generations, but the most promising are discharges that can be performed at atmospheric pressure in relatively large volume. Plasma parameters depend on many factors, like chemical composition of a process gas, its pressure, velocity of flow and humidity; and they are also deeply affected by power supply parameters, like frequency, voltage, current and their waveforms.
At present the Laboratory is equipped with the following research stands:
- research on plasma reactors and ozone generators
- research on power supply systems for plasma reactors and ozonizers
- influence of ozone and non-thermal plasma on selected materials, microorganisms and plants
- spectroscopic studies
- microscopic examination
- goniometric studies
- measuring selected physicochemical parameters of liquids and gases