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Plasma treatment of water and wastewater as a promising approach to promote plant growth

Cechová, L. Marinova, P. Benova, E. Topalova, Y., I. Todorova, Y. Simoniková, L. Novotny, K. Buday, J. Modlitbová, P. Kozáková, Z. Porízka, P. Kaiser, J. Krcma, F.

Original Title

Plasma treatment of water and wastewater as a promising approach to promote plant growth

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

Plasma agriculture as a novel approach started to gain more attention in the last decade. In this work, the effect of plasma activated water (PAW) prepared with different plasma sources from three types of water on germination and growth of Cucumis melo L. was studied. The best effect of PAW from distilled water on the growth of seedlings was observed when prepared using the surface-wave-sustained microwave discharge. The effect of artificially prepared plasma activated water (ArtPAW) was studied, however, it was found that while ArtPAW may cause similar effects to the plasma PAW, the effect is not as significant and consistent. Further, PAW was prepared from tap and wastewater. It was found that PAW from wastewater has positive effects on both germination of the seeds and the growth of the seedlings. The root elongation of C. melo after application of plasma treated wastewater increased up to 130% compared to the control. Moreover, it was found that plants grown in PAW from wastewater contained significantly higher concentrations of plant nutrients. Therefore, it shows a promising approach for the application of non-thermal plasma in plant fertilization and a method of wastewater reuse after plasma treatment.

Keywords

low temperature plasma; agriculture; wastewater; plasma activated water; fertilizer

Authors

Cechová, L.; Marinova, P.; Benova, E.; Topalova, Y., I.; Todorova, Y.; Simoniková, L.; Novotny, K.; Buday, J.; Modlitbová, P.; Kozáková, Z.; Porízka, P.; Kaiser, J.; Krcma, F.

Released

17. 3. 2025

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Location

BRISTOL

ISBN

1361-6463

Periodical

Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics

Year of study

58

Number

11

State

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Pages count

17

URL

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ada6cd

BibTex

@article{BUT197909,
  author="Ludmila {Čechová} and Plamena {Marinova} and Evgenia {Benova} and Yana {Topalova} and Ivaylo {Yotinov} and Yovana {Todorova} and Lucie {Šimoníková} and Karel {Novotný} and Jakub {Buday} and Pavlína {Modlitbová} and Zdenka {Kozáková} and Pavel {Pořízka} and Jozef {Kaiser} and František {Krčma}",
  title="Plasma treatment of water and wastewater as a promising approach to promote plant growth",
  journal="Journal of Physics D - Applied Physics",
  year="2025",
  volume="58",
  number="11",
  pages="17",
  doi="10.1088/1361-6463/ada6cd",
  issn="1361-6463",
  url="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ada6cd"
}