Seed treatment and water purification by the synergical effect of gliding arc plasma and photocatalytic film

In recent time low temperature plasma discharge is ordinarily used in material engineering for surface treatment of various kind of material but it has already been used also for other applications, such as degradation of mycotoxin, sterilization of thermally sensitive medical devices, seed germination enhancement etc. Also many types of advanced oxidation processes (AOP) are used in wide range of applications, for instance for biodegradation of pollutants, water cleaning, sterilization etc. In the paper the possibilities of using of low temperature atmospheric pressure plasma discharge (APD) and AOP based on photocatalysis in some environmental friendly applications is presented. The possibilities of APD using for degradation of mycotoxin has been already presented but any influence of the APD on quality of the infected and treated seeds was studied. Thus the comparison of nutriments contents of treated and untreated seeds was the aim of the paper. The synergistic effect of contemporary using of photocatalysis and APD of Gliding Arc type on biodegradation of pollutant in water is also presented.