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Indoor air quality improvement and purification by atmospheric pressure Non-Thermal Plasma (NTP).
- Source :
- Scientific Reports; 11/24/2021, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p1-12, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Non-thermal plasma (NTP) is a promising technology for the improvement of indoor air quality (IAQ) by removing volatile organic compounds (VOCs) through advanced oxidation process (AOP). In this paper, authors developed a laboratory scale dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor which generates atmospheric NTP to study the removal of low-concentration formaldehyde (HCHO), a typical indoor air VOC in the built environment associated with cancer and leukemia, under different processing conditions. Strong ionization NTP was generated between the DBD electrodes by a pulse power zero-voltage switching flyback transformer (ZVS-FBT), which caused ionization of air molecules leading to active species formation to convert HCHO into carbon dioxide (CO<subscript>2</subscript>) and water vapor (H<subscript>2</subscript>O). The impact of key electrical and physical processing parameters i.e. discharge power (P), initial concentration (C<subscript>in</subscript>), flow rate (F), and relative humidity (RH) which affect the formaldehyde removal efficiency (ษณ) were studied to determine optimum conditions. Results show that, the correlation coefficient (R<superscript>2</superscript>) of removal efficiency dependence on the processing parameters follow the order R<superscript>2</superscript> (F) = 0.99 > R<superscript>2</superscript> (RH) = 0.96, > R<superscript>2</superscript> (C<subscript>in</subscript>) = 0.94 > R<superscript>2</superscript> (P) = 0.93. The removal efficiency reached 99% under the optimum conditions of P = 0.6 W, C<subscript>in</subscript> = 0.1 ppm, F = 0.2 m<superscript>3</superscript>/h, and RH = 65% with no secondary pollution. The study provided a theoretical and experimental basis for the application of DBD plasma for air purification in the built environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20452322
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Scientific Reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 153754903
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-02276-1