A Perspective on the Gas and Liquid Electrical Discharge of Plasma for Agriculture Applications: Part I. Enhancement of Yield in Plant Lifecycle.
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https://doi.org/10.14456/rmutlengj.2017.9Keywords:
Plasma applications, atmospheric pressure plasmas, chemical plasma treatment, gas discharge plasma, underwater electrical discharge plasma, plant cultivation, agriculture, high voltage techniquesAbstract
This paper presents a literature review of recent techniques for increasing agricultural productivity of the whole plant lifecycle by using non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma (NTAPP) technology. Also presented are all of current NTAPPs in gas and liquid that are being invented at High Voltage Engineering Laboratory, Rajamangala University of Technology Lanna, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Our NTAPPs are designed to be applicable in advanced research of agriculture works in the future. The NTAPPs’ approaches are presented, along with the preliminary results. In the past, plasma gas or liquid discharge from high voltage for agricultural applications were usually used to deactivate or kill microorganisms and pathogens in water or gas. However, recent research activities aim to increase agricultural productivity of the whole plant lifecycle by using non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma (NTAPP) technology to fulfill the needs of industrial agriculture. Recent literature review in the past half-decade showed that NTAPP offers benefits of enhancing the nutrition characteristics of seeds and increasing seed germination rate. Furthermore, NTAPP can help increase plant growth rate and nutritional yield and subsequently agricultural produce quality. NTAPP can not only deactivate microorganisms on the surfaces or in the water but can also fix nutrients necessary for plants to grow in soil and water. After the harvest, the NTAPP has been used to maintain the freshness of the vegetables and fruits that has the benefit of reduced costs of storage and transportation.
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44. Wenjuan Bian et al., Nitrogen Fixation Into Water by Pulsed High-Voltage Discharge, IEEE Transactions On Plasma Sci., 2009; 37: 211-218.
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เดชธรรมรงค์ ช. (2017). A Perspective on the Gas and Liquid Electrical Discharge of Plasma for Agriculture Applications: Part I. Enhancement of Yield in Plant Lifecycle. RMUTL Engineering Journal, 2(2), 11–23. https://doi.org/10.14456/rmutlengj.2017.9
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