Degradation of methylene blue dye as wastewater pollutant by atmospheric pressure plasma: A comparative study

Abstract

The industrial application of non-thermal plasma has been a research field in the last few years. One of the potential applications of non-thermal plasma is in treating dye effluents of textiles industries which are considered as one of the environmental pollutants. Before scaling up plasma technology at the industrial level, it is required to understand the interaction of non-thermal plasma with a synthetic dye-containing solution in laboratory experiments. A detailed comparative study of MB dye degradation using an atmospheric pressure air plasma (corona discharge) source is carried out in this report. The results are qualitatively discussed in line with the available theoretical and experimental background of plasma-water interaction.