Surface decontamination of simulated chemical warfare agents using a nonequilibrium plasma with off-gas monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 30, Issue 4 I, 2002, Pages 1454-1459

  Moeller, Trevor M ^a   Alexander, Michael L ^b   Engelhard, Mark H ^b   Gaspar, Daniel J ^b   Luna, Maria L ^a   Irving, Patricia M ^a  

^a InnovaTek Inc   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheric air plasma discharge; Chemical warfare agent; Decontamination; Ion trap mass spectrometry; Nonequilibrium plasma; Nonthermal plasma

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL WARFARE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PLASMAS; SURFACE TREATMENT;

SURFACE DECONTAMINATION;

DECONTAMINATION;

EID: 0037278003     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2002.804197     Document Type: Article

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