BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF GAS DISCHARGE PLASMAS ; BIOLOGICAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF GAS DISCHARGE PLASMAS ; CONTENTS ; PREFACE ; FOREWORD ; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS OF NON-THERMAL PLASMAS ; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 2. COMMERCIALLY VIABLE, LARGE-SCALE PLASMA-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS ; 2.1. Electrostatic Precipitation ; 2.1.1. Historical Background ; 2.1.2. Main Physical Processes Involved in Electrostatic Precipitation ; 2.1.3. Large Industrial Electrostatic Precipitators; 2.1.4. Summary ; 2.2. Ozonizers ; 2.2.1. Historical Background
2.2.2. Ozone Properties and Applications 2.2.3. Ozone Formation in Electrical Discharges ; 2.2.4. Technical Aspects of Large Ozone Generators ; 2.2.5. Future Prospects of Industrial Ozone Generation ; 3. DECOMPOSITION OF VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS (VOCS) IN MICROPLASMAS ; 3.1. Experimental Details ; 3.2. VOC Destruction Efficiency; 3.3. By-Product Formation; 3.4. Kinetic Studies; 3.5. SUMMARY ; 4. PULSED ELECTRICAL DISCHARGES IN WATER ; 4.1. Background ; 4.2. Experimental Systems ; 4.3. Selected Experimental Results ; 4.4. Summary; 5. CONCLUSION ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES
OZONE GENERATION WITH COLD PLASMAS FOR WATER TREATMENT PROCESSESABSTRACT; I. INTRODUCTION; II. OZONE AND ITS APPLICATIONS ; III. 1. Ozone Generation through Gas Discharges; III. 2. Ozone Formation in Dielectric Barrier Discharges; III. 3. Kinetics of Ozone Formation ; IV. OZONE GENERATOR CONFIGURATIONS ; V. OPTIMIZATION OF LARGE-SCALE OZONE GENERATORS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; MICROSCOPY AS AN ANALYSIS TOOL FOR STUDYING PLASMA APPLICATIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION ; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY ; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON AND SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SCANNING PROBE MICROSCOPY
OTHER MICROSCOPIC TECHNIQUES CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES ; BACTERIAL BIOFILM INACTIVATION BY GAS-DISCHARGE PLASMAS; ABSTRACT ; 1. INTRODUCTION ; 1.1. Biofilms; 1.2. The Problem of Biofilm Inactivation and the Potential Use of Plasma; 2. BIOFILMS AND ORAL HEALTH; 3. PLASMA FOR FOOD SAFETY CONTROL -- BIOFILMS IN FOOD ; 4. RESULTS WITH OTHER MODEL ORGANISMS; 5. RESULTS FROM OUR LABORATORY ; 6. SOME CONCERNS; 7. FUTURE PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; REFERENCES ; NON-EQUILIBRIUM PLASMAS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE; ABSTRACT
1. DIRECT NON-THERMAL PLASMA MEDICINE VERSUS CONVENTIONAL THERMAL AND JET PLASMA TREATMENT OF LIVING TISSUE1.1. Sterilization of Non-Living Objects for Medical Applications: A Review ; 1.2. Plasma-Assisted Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration: Discharge Systems for Air-Plasma Surgery and Nitrogen Oxide (NO) Therapy; Pulmonology; Phthisiology ; Traumatology and Orthopedics ; Gynecology ; Dentistry; Maxillofacial Surgery ; Ophthalmology; Otorhinolaryngology ; Dermatology; Gastroenterology ; Purulent Peritonitis ; 1.3. Non-Thermal Plasma Treatment of Various Diseases
