The rise of emerging contaminants in waters challenges the scientific community and water
treatment stakeholders to design remediation techniques that are simple, practical …

Electric discharge plasma (EDP) can efficiently degrade aqueous pollutants by its in situ
generated strong oxidative species (· OH,· O, H 2 O 2, O 3, etc) and other physiochemical …

Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma in situ generates reactive species (e*, radical dot
OH, radical dot O, radical dot H, H 2 O 2, O 3, etc.), UV irradiation and local high …

Decomposition of toxic organic compounds is a major environmental problem. Increasingly,
research is being conducted to use plasmas to decompose these wastes in water, as it is …

Nonthermal electrical discharge plasma in liquids and at gas–liquid interfaces generate a
number of chemical and physical processes (Chapter 6) that can affect both the chemical …

Anthropogenic pollutants and in particular pharmaceutical residues are a potential risk for
potable water where they are found in increasing concentrations. Different environmental …

Water bodies are being contaminated daily due to industrial, agricultural and domestic
effluents. In the last decades, harmful organic micropollutants (OMPs) have been detected in …

A small batch reactor is developed to study the removal of phenol from a thin layer of water
by creating pulsed corona discharges above the water. Pulses of up to 40 kV are applied …

The degradation of methylene blue (MB) using an upgraded dielectric barrier discharge
(DBD) plasma reactor was investigated in this paper. Air plasma was generated in the glass …

The decoloration efficiency of azo dye (Acid Orange 7, AO7) using a multi-needle-to-plate
high-voltage pulsed corona discharge system was investigated in this paper. The effect of …