Review on formation of cold plasma activated water (PAW) and the applications in food and agriculture

Y Gao, K Francis, X Zhang - Food Research International, 2022 - Elsevier
Climate change increases the need for effective and sustainable technologies in food and
agriculture. Plasma-activated water (PAW) emerges as a green and sustainable technology …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced cold plasma-assisted technology for green and sustainable ammonia synthesis

D Panchal, Q Lu, K Sakaushi, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia (NH 3) is the most crucial industrial chemical feedstock for producing fertilizers
and is a promising future hydrogen carrier. Recent research has spurred to development of …

Microbubble-enhanced water activation by cold plasma

Y Gao, M Li, C Sun, X Zhang - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
Plasma activated water (PAW) is water treated by ionized gas. As a clean and sustainable
technology, PAW attracts intensive attention from various fields of wastewater treatment …

Vacuum membrane distillation for seawater concentrate treatment coupled with microbubble aeration cleaning to alleviate membrane fouling

W Zhang, S Yu, H Zhao, X Ji, R Ning - Separation and Purification …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, a laboratory-scale vacuum membrane distillation (VMD) system was applied to
treat seawater concentrate using a hydrophobic polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) membrane …

Computational fluid dynamics investigation of bitumen residues in oil sands tailings transport in an industrial horizontal pipe

SG Sontti, M Sadeghi, K Zhou, E Zheng, X Zhang - Physics of Fluids, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Pipeline transport is commonly used in the oil sand industry to convey crushed oil sand ores
and tailings. Bitumen residues in the oil sand tailings can be a threat to the environment that …

An assessment of the role of combined bulk micro-and nano-bubbles in quartz flotation

S Zhou, Y Li, S Nazari, X Bu, A Hassanzadeh, C Ni… - Minerals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bulk micro-nano-bubbles (BMNBs) have been proven to be effective at improving the
flotation recovery and kinetics of fine-grained minerals. However, there is currently no …

Microbubble-enhanced cold plasma activation for water decontamination: Degradation dynamics and energy yield in relation to pollutant concentration, total volume …

N Shahsavari, X Zhang - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2023 - Elsevier
Necessity to safely dispose effluents from industrial wastewater and also water shortage has
motivated the search for novel techniques in water treatment. Cold plasma technology is a …

Microbubble-enhanced bitumen separation from tailing slurries with high solid contents

K Zhou, SG Sontti, J Zhou, P Esmaeili… - Industrial & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Bitumen residues in oil sand tailings ponds create greenhouse gas emissions and threaten
the ecosystem. However, it is technically challenging to recover bitumen residues from …

[HTML][HTML] Intrinsic CO2 nanobubbles in alkaline aqueous solutions

T Zarei, EC Fuchs, LLF Agostinho, D Gebauer… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanobubbles (NBs) and their derivative, bulk nanobubbles (BNBs), have been widely
studied due to their potential wide range of applications. However, the stable existence of …

An investigation of nanobubble enhanced flotation for fly ash decarbonization

H Huang, X Yang, Z Wu, B Qiao, G Ma, H Shao… - Colloids and Surfaces A …, 2023 - Elsevier
Froth flotation is often employed to remove unburned carbon in the fly ash produced as a
coal combustion by-product before it can be utilized in the cement or similar industries …