Discharge Characteristics and Bactericidal Effect of Ar Plasma Jet Treating Ethanol Aqueous Solution
Xia Wenjie1,2, Liu Dingxin2
1. State Key Lab of Reliability and Intelligence of Electrical Equipment Hebei University of Technology Tianjin 300130 China; 2. Centre for Plasma Biomedicine Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an 710049 China
Abstract:Ethanol is a kind of commonly used disinfectant in medical treatment. Theoretically, doping ethanol into aqueous solution treated by Ar plasma jet can enhance the bactericidal effect. Through the inactivation experiment of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, it was found that the bactericidal effect of Ar jet plasma-activated water was increased by more than 5 orders of magnitude by doping 20% ethanol. Furthermore, when 0.2% N2 was mixed into the working gas or 1% O2 was added into the shield, the bactericidal effect can be improved by more than 5 orders of magnitude by doping 2% ethanol. At the same time, 2% ethanol doping can cause the overlapping of multiple discharge channels in the plasma, which may be due to Penning ionization of metastable Ar* and ethanol gas molecules at the gas-liquid interface. Finally, the analysis of reactive species in liquid phase show that peracetic acid in ethanol solution activated by plasma may play a leading role in the sterilization process, and peroxynitrite and peracetic acid may synergistically enhance the bactericidal effect.
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