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dc.contributor.authorBroderick, Michael
dc.contributor.authorFogarty, Andrew
dc.contributor.authorRowan, Neil J.
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-10T12:56:38Z
dc.date.available2020-06-10T12:56:38Z
dc.date.copyright2017
dc.date.issued2017-02
dc.identifier.citationBroderick, M., Fogarty, A., Rowan, N.J. (2017). Development of a high-intensity, pulsed-plasma, gas-discharge technology for destruction of hazardous aqueous environment micropollutants. International Journal of Science, Environment and Technology. 6(1): 7-19.en_US
dc.identifier.otherArticles - Bioscience Research Institute AITen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://research.thea.ie/handle/20.500.12065/3301
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this study is to investigate the development and optimization of a highintensity, pulsed plasma, gas-discharge (PPGD) system as a novel environmental decontamination approach for treating unwanted microbial and chemical micropollutants. This PPGD system produces multiple short-lived decontaminating properties in the treatment chamber, which includes ozone, acoustic shock waves, UV-light and pulsed electric fields. Findings demonstrated that PPGD effectively inactivated a broad range of microbial pathogens including antibiotic-resistant bacteria and also significantly reducing phenol in treated samples (p< 0.05). However, HPLC analysis revealed that application PPGD produced a range of break-down by-products in phenol-treated samples, which exhibited significant ecotoxicological effects as demonstrated by use of Microtox™ assay. Greater ecotoxicological were observed from samples post PPGD treatments compared to that of the untreated-Phenol control samples (p<0.05). Shorter-exposure periods to PPGD treatment produced sub-lethal conditions for survival of test microbial pathogens, which were underestimated compared to enumeration of similarly PPGD-treated samples by conventional agar plate counts (p<0.05). While PPGD was shown to be an effective electro-technology for reducing or removing environmental micropollutants in water, it must be combined with other decontamination approaches in order to mitigate against undesirable toxicological endpoints produced during treatments.en_US
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dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIJSETen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Science, Environment and Technology.en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Ireland*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/*
dc.subjectPulsed plasma gas dischargeen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmenten_US
dc.subjectMicrobial inactivationen_US
dc.subjectMRSAen_US
dc.subjectEcotoxicologyen_US
dc.titleDevelopment of a high-intensity, pulsed-plasma, gas-discharge technology for destruction of hazardous aqueous environment micropollutants.en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.contributor.sponsorAthlone Institute of Technology’s Postgraduate Scholarship Initiative and Dobbin-Scholarship to Canada.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewyesen_US
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-1228-3733
dc.rights.accessOpen Accessen_US
dc.subject.departmentBioscience Research Institute AITen_US


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