Publication detail

Utilisation of Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barier Discharge for Paper Sterilization

VRAJOVÁ, J. NOVOTNÝ, O. CHALOUPKOVÁ, L. KRČMA, F. SŤAHEL, P.

Original Title

Type

miscellaneous

Language

English

Original Abstract

In this paper the removal of the microbial contamination from paper material using the plasma treatment at atmospheric pressure is investigated. The Aspergillus niger spores were chosen as a bio-indicator enabling to evaluate the effect of plasma assisted microbial inactivation. Dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) operated at atmospheric pressure was used for the paper sterilization. The working gas (nitrogen, argon, and helium), plasma exposition time and the plasma power density were varied in order to see the effect of the plasma treatment on the fungi removal. After the treatment, the microbial abatement was evaluated by the standard plate count method. This proved a positive effect of the DBD plasma treatment on fungi removal. Morphological and colorimetric changes of paper substrate after plasma treatment were also investigated.

Keywords

dielectric barrier discharge at atmospheric pressure, plasma sterilisation of paper

Authors

VRAJOVÁ, J.; NOVOTNÝ, O.; CHALOUPKOVÁ, L.; KRČMA, F.; SŤAHEL, P.

RIV year

2008

Released

7. 9. 2008

Location

Oleron Island

Pages from

545

Pages to

549

Pages count

BibTex

@misc{BUT33995,
  author="Jitka {Slámová} and Ondřej {Novotný} and Lucie {Chaloupková} and František {Krčma} and Pavel {Sťahel}",
  title="Utilisation of Atmospheric Pressure Dielectric Barier Discharge for Paper Sterilization",
  booktitle="Proceedings of HAKONE XI",
  year="2008",
  pages="545--549",
  address="Oleron Island",
  note="miscellaneous"
}