The potential of pulsed underwater streamer discharges as a disinfection technique

IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science

Volumn 36, Issue 4 PART 3, 2008, Pages 1621-1632

  Gupta, Suryakant B ^a,b   Bluhm, Hansjoachim ^a,c  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR PLASMA RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Energetic efficiency; Oxidant production; Pulsed underwater streamer discharges; Water disinfection

Indexed keywords

DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); DISINFECTION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD THEORY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROMAGNETISM; FREE RADICALS; HEALTH; IONIZATION OF GASES; MAGNETIC FIELDS; OXIDANTS; PULSE GENERATORS;

APPLIED VOLTAGES; BULK WATER; CHEMICAL PROBING; ELECTRIC PULSES; ENERGETIC EFFICIENCY; IONIZED GASES; NON-THERMAL; OH RADICALS; OXIDANT PRODUCTION; POROUS LAYERS; PRODUCTION RATES; PULSE DURATION; PULSE DURATIONS; PULSED UNDERWATER STREAMER DISCHARGES; REPETITION RATES; STREAMER DISCHARGES; WATER DISINFECTION;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES;

EID: 50249168354     PISSN: 00933813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPS.2008.2001231     Document Type: Article

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