Degradation of antibiotic contaminants from water by gas–liquid underwater discharge plasma

Fu LU; Jian ZHOU; Zhengwei WU

doi:10.1088/2058-6272/ac9576

Plasma Science and Technology > 2023 > 25(3): 035506. > DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac9576

Fu LU, Jian ZHOU, Zhengwei WU. Degradation of antibiotic contaminants from water by gas–liquid underwater discharge plasma[J]. Plasma Science and Technology, 2023, 25(3): 035506. DOI: 10.1088/2058-6272/ac9576

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Degradation of antibiotic contaminants from water by gas–liquid underwater discharge plasma

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School of Nuclear Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, People's Republic of China
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Institute of Advanced Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230022, People's Republic of China

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Zhengwei WU, E-mail: wuzw@ustc.edu.cn
Received Date: August 08, 2022
Revised Date: September 23, 2022
Accepted Date: September 26, 2022
Available Online: December 06, 2023
Published Date: January 19, 2023

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Antibiotic contamination adversely affects human health and ecological balance. In this study, gas–liquid underwater discharge plasma was employed to simultaneously degrade three antibiotics, sulfadiazine (SDZ), tetracycline (TC), and norfloxacin (NOR), to address the growing problem of antibiotic contaminants in water. The effects of various parameters on the antibiotic degradation efficiency were evaluated, including the discharge gas type and flow rate, the initial concentration and pH of the solution, and the discharge voltage. Under the optimum parameter configuration, the average removal rate of the three antibiotics was 54.0% and the energy yield was 8.9 g (kW·h)^-1 after 5 min treatment; the removal efficiency was 96.5% and the corresponding energy yield was 4.0 g (kW·h)^-1 after 20 min treatment. Reactive substance capture and determination experiments indicated that ·OH and O₃ played a vital role in the decomposition of SDZ and NOR, but the role of reactive substances in TC degradation was relatively less significant.
- antibiotic contamination,
- non-thermal plasma,
- gas–liquid underwater discharge,
- degradation efficiency,
- plasma reactive substances

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This work was supported by the Key R & D Plan of Anhui Province (No. 201904a07020013), Collaborative Innovation Program of Hefei Science Center, CAS (No. CX2140000018), and the Funding for Joint Lab of Applied Plasma Technology (No. JL06120001H).

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