Plasma Chemistry and Plasma Processing, Vol.31, No.4, 573-583, 2011
Application of Dielectric Barrier Discharge for Waste Water Purification
This study considers treatment of real city rain sewage under the action of an oxygen dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure in the presence or absence of TiO(2) catalyst in the plasma zone. The DBD discharge has been shown to have high decomposition efficiency (up to 98%) for oil hydrocarbons, phenols and synthetic surfactants. The discharge action resulted in the decrease of heavy metal (Pb, Cd, Fe, Mn) content as well. In a plasma-catalytic hybrid process, the efficiency of organic substances decomposition was higher than efficiency for the DBD treatment without catalyst.
Keywords:Oxygen surface barrier discharge;Real city rain sewage;Oil hydrocarbons;Phenols;Synthetic surfactants;Decomposition;Catalysts