Atmosphere Non-Thermal Plasma for Seed Treatment

Abstract

Cold plasma has attracted lots of attention among researchers because it has a wide range of applications, such as the automotive industry, textile industry, microelectronics, packaging, biomedical technology, food preservation, and agricultural sectors. Scientists have shown a great interest in non-thermal plasma because of its advantages such as low temperature, scalable size, low operation cost, flexible operation, and high electron and reactive specie density. Also, non-thermal plasma can be operated at atmospheric pressure, which is an advantage in the agriculture industry rather than operating in a vacuum. Recently atmospheric cold plasma pressure was selected as one of the plasma technologies applied in the agricultural industry for treating the surface of the seed with environmentally friendly technology that produces no hazardous waste. DBD plasma is one of the cold plasma techniques, which can be easily triggered at atmospheric pressure and room temperature.