Plasma application for biomaterials processing

Abstract

An objective of this paper is to offer some basic information about quite new state of matter, to the experts involve in food chain, because they do not have such equipments in every day life. The fundamental data about plasma as the forth state of the matter are presented, as well as some physical properties. Some technical solutions of plasma industrial applications for drinking water purification, odour and dust abatement system are described, which are produced by domestic scientific community or foreigner company. The applying of plasma energy in the food processing is still on experimental level in the laboratories. The results of several authors study about fruits, vegetables and chicken meat surface area decontamination prior to packaging by the help of cold plasma energy are presented. Their conclusions are very optimistic, the compact new design should be expecting in close future. The biomaterial dryers supported by cold or non cold plasma are still in the hand of scientific institutions, some experimental structures are running in the laboratories, although a lot of hard work about heat and mass exchanges during this process should be done.

Keywords

• plasma
• gases and water purification
• biomaterial plasma dryers