• Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering
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• v.35 no.12
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• pp.2452-2463
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• 2018

Surface treatment of sol-gel bioglass is required to increase its biomedical applications. In this study, a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma treatment in atmospheric pressure was performed on the surface of [$SiO_2-CaO-P_2O_5-B_2O_3$] sol-gel derived glass. The obtained bioglass was treated by plasma using discharge current 12 mA with an exposure period for 30 min. The type of discharge can be characterized by measuring the discharge current and applied potential waveform and the power dissipation. Apatite formation on the surface of the DBD-treated and untreated samples after soaking in simulated body fluid (SBF) at $37^{\circ}C$ is characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-Ray diffraction (XRD), inductively coupled plasma (ICP-OES) and scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS). We observed a marked increase in the amount of apatite deposited on the surface of the treated plasma samples than those of the untreated ones, indicating that DBD plasma treatment is an efficient method and capable of modifying the surface of glass beside effectively transforming it into highly bioactive materials.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.1165-1173
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• 2014

For the field application of dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor in nutrient solution culture, a filtration-DBD (dielectric barrier discharge) plasma reactor was investigated for the Ralstonia solanacearum which causes bacterial wilt in aquiculture. The filtration-DBD plasma reactor system of this study was consisted of filter, plasma reactor, reservoir. The DBD plasma reactor consisted of a quartz dielectric tube, discharge electrode (inner) and ground electrode (outer). The experimental results showed that the inactivation of R. solanacearum with filter media type in filter reactor ranked in the following order: anthracite > fiber ball > sand > ceramic ball > quartz ceramic. In filtration + plasma process, disinfection effect with the voltage was found to small. In disinfection time of 120 minutes, residual R. solanacearum concentration was 1.17 log (15 CFU/mL). When the continuous disinfection time was 120 minute, disinfection effect was thought to keep the four days. In sporadic operation mode of 30 minutes disinfection - 24 hours break, residual R. solanacearum concentration after five days was 0.3 log (2 CFU/mL). It is considered that most of R. solanacearum has been inactivated substantially.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.458-458
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• 2012

Fuel Cell is used stacking metal or polymer substrate. This hydro property of substrate surface is very important. Usually, surface property is hydrophilic. The surface oxidation of SUS is investigated through plasma treatments with an atmospheric-pressure dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) for increasing hydrophilic property. The plasma process makes an experiment under various operating conditions of the DBD, which operating conditions are treatment time, plasma gas mixture ratio, the plasma source supply frequency. Two kinds of SUS substrate, SUS-304 and SUS 316L, were used. Discharge frequency has a crucial impact on equipment performance and gas treatment. After the plasma treatment of a SUS plate, highly improved wettability was noted. But, when high oxygen supply, the substrate damaged seriously.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.641-648
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• 2008

A plate-type dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactor was designed and tested for removal of gaseous toluene. The DBD reactor consisted of 9 parallel plate electrodes, four of which were grounded. An AC voltage of rectangular waveform ($5{\sim}8.5kV$, $60{\sim}1,000Hz$), was applied to the other five electrodes. The gaseous toluene passed through the DBD reactor and its concentration was measured by a real-time gas analyzer. The carbon monoxide (CO) and carbon dioxide ($CO_2$) which were produced by decomposition of toluene in the DBD reactor, were sampled and analyzed by a micro gas chromatography. The maximum toluene removal efficiency was 51.4%.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.206-209
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• 2006

At present, the cold cathode fluorescent lamp (CCFL) using mercury lamp has been generally used far liquid crystal backlight source of personal computer and car navigation and so on. This kind of lamp is more excellent on luminance performance and cost. However, the requirements of liquid crystal backlight due to a light source without mercury have been strongly increased from a viewpoint of the actual influence on environmental preservation and environmental recycling. As fluorescent lamp without mercury, Dielectric Barrier Discharge based rare gas fluorescent lamp (DBD-FL) using xenon (Xe) gas has been studied so far. This DBD lamp has no influence on the human body and environmental recycle. Its operating life is long because electrode is out. In this paper, the simulation and experimental results of soft switching high frequency inverter with reverse blocking single switch as a high frequency power supply circuit for DBD-FL using Xe gas are comparatively evaluated and discussed from a practical point of view.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.114-122
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• 2014

This paper describes a study of the design conditions of a planar surface dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) reactors for generating negative air ions. The capacity of negative air ion generated by the surface DBD reactor is affected by the shape, area ratio and the location of the discharge and induction electrodes of it. To study the optimal design conditions of DBD reactors, the electrodes printed on the substrate of a PCB board is utilized to conduct kind of experiments: the distance of the each electrode along with the X-Y axis, the area ratio of the discharge electrode to induction electrode, and the symmetrical and asymmetrical location of two electrodes. The ion generation capacity is inverse proportional to the gap increases along with X-Y axis. And the optimum ion concentration generated by the ionizer was inspected when the electrodes area ratio was 3 and 5 times of the symmetrical and asymmetrical experimental condition respectively.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.213-217
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• 2007

Decomposition of benzene and selectivity of byproducts were investigated by using Dielectric Barrier Discharge (DBD) at atmospheric pressure. In order to increase the decomposition rate and selectivity of byproducts, two types of catalysts, H-ZSM-5 and Na-Y, were optionally employed inside the reactor of the process. The decomposition efficiency of benzene was investigated on the DBD and DBD/catalyst systems at various processing parameters including discharge voltage, residence time, and concentration of benzene. The results showed that, compared with the DBD only, the catalyst-assisted DBD process as a hybrid discharge type had an improved decomposition efficiency at the same process conditions of discharge voltage and residence time

• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.529-536
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• 2004

Innovated technique to inactivate microorganisms has been developed. This technique uses plasma discharge in 2-phase (Air-Water). Dielectric Barrier (two phase) Discharging system is able to produce new oxidants for microorganisms. Products from discharging are $HNO_2$, $NO_2{^-}$, $HNO_3$, $NO_3{^-}$ and ozone but many other radicals can be generated as well. DBD water has low concentration of ozone (about 0.5mg/L), $NO_2{^-}$, $NO_3{^-}$ (about 10mg-N/L, 20mg-N/L respectively) and lots of $H^+$. These products play an important role in oxidation. Oxidation power by KI titration methods is approximately equivalent to $50mg-O_3/L$. Surprisingly stored DBD water could oxidize KI and maintain stable pH (about pH3) even after several days. Stored DBD water for 5 days has also more than 4log disinfection power to E. coli. However, DBD water cannot be used for drinking water directly due to it's toxicity. Additional process to neutralize pH and decrease toxicity must be applied.

• Journal of Environmental Science International
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.623-630
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• 2011

This study investigated the degradation of N, N-Dimethyl-4-nitrosoaniline (RNO, indicator of the generation of OH radical) by using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma. The DBD plasma reactor of this study consisted of a quartz dielectric tube, titanium discharge (inner) and ground (outer) electrode. The effect of shape (rod, spring and pipe) of ground electrode, diameter (9~30 mm) of ground electrode of spring shape and inside diameter (4~13 mm) of quartz tube, electrode diameter (1~4 mm), electrode materials (SUS, Ti, iron, Cu and W), height difference of discharge and ground electrode (1~15.5 cm) and gas flow rate (1~7 L/min) were evaluated. The experimental results showed that shape of ground electrode and materials of ground and discharge electrode were not influenced the RNO degradation. The thinner the diameter of discharge and ground electrode, the higher RNO degradation rate observed. The effect of height gap of discharge between ground electrode on RNO degradation was not high within the experimented value. Among the experimented parameters, inside diameter of quartz tube and gas flow rate were most important parameters which are influenced the decomposition of RNO. Optimum inside diameter of quartz tube and gas flow rate were 7 mm and 4 L/min, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.105-112
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• 2002

A combined process of non-thermal plasma and catalytic techniques has been investigated to treat toxic gas compounds in air. The treated gas in the present study is $CH_3$CN that has been known to be a simulant of toxic chemical agent. A planar type dielectric barrier discharge(DBD) reactor has been used to generate non-thermal plasma that produces various chemically active species, O, N, OH, $O_3$, ion, electrons, etc. Several different types of adsorbents and catalysts, which are MS 5A, MS 13X, Pt/alumina, are packed into the plasma reactor, and have been tested to save power consumption and to treat by-products. Various aspects of the present techniques, which are decomposition efficiencies along with the power consumption, by-product analysis, reaction pathways modified by the adsorbents and catalysts, have been discussed in the present study.