Environmental Health Insights (Jul 2024)

Abatement of Aerosols by Ionic Wind Extracted From Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma

  • Tehreem Arshad,
  • Muhammad Shahid Rafique,
  • Shazia Bashir,
  • Asma Hayat,
  • Muhammad Ghulam Murtaza,
  • Abdul Muneeb,
  • Imran Shahadat,
  • Nabiha Nayab

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/11786302241262879
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 18

Abstract

Read online

Lahore (Pakistan), being an industrial city, has high emission of aerosols that affects and contaminates the air quality. Therefore, the abatement/inactivation of aerosols is necessary to restrict their infectious activities. In this project, ionic wind isolated from dielectric barrier discharge plasma (DBD plasma) has been utilized to abate the aerosols trapped in the Surgical Mask and KN95 Respirator. To infer the chemical and elemental detection of ambient aerosols, FTIR and LIBS have been employed. “From the results, it is noteworthy that abatement/removal of aerosols has been successfully carried out by the ionic wind irradiation and highlights the potential of DBD plasma technology in removing the aerosols pollution.”