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14 1ȣ, March 2015
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ISSN : 2288-9167 (Print)
ISSN : 2288-923X (Online)
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Effects of gas retention time and liquid gas ratio for the simultaneous
removals of hydrogen sulfide and bioaerosol in a wet-plasma process
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Abstracts
Odor compounds and air-born microorganisms are simultaneously emitted from various aeration processes such as
aerobic digestion, food-waste compositing, and carcass decomposition facilities that are biologically-treating wastes
with high organic contents. The air streams emitted from these processes commonly contain sulfur-containing
odorous compounds such as hydrogen sulfide(H2S) and bacterial bioaerosols. In this study, a wet-plasma method
was applied to remove these air-born pollutants and to minimize safety issues. In addition, the effects of a gas
retention time and a liquid-gas ratio were evaluated on removal efficiencies in the wet-plasma system. At the gas
reaction time of 1.8 seconds and the liquid-gas ratio of 0.05 mLaq/Lg, the removal efficiency of bioaerosol was
approximately 75 %, while the removal efficiency of H2S was lower than 20 %, indicating that the gaseous
compound was not effectively oxidized by the plasma reaction at the low liquid addition. When the liquid-gas ratio
was increased to 0.25 mLaq/Lg, the removal efficiencies of both H2S and bioaerosol increased to greater than 99 %.
At the higher liquid-gas ratio, more ozone was generated by the wet-plasma reaction. The ozone generation was
significantly affected by the input electrical energy, and it needed to be removed before discharged from the process.
Keywords : Liquefied fertilizer storage, Carcass burial sites, Wet plasma, Odor, Bioaerosol