PMID- 31514016
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200424
LR  - 20200424
IS  - 1096-0953 (Electronic)
IS  - 0013-9351 (Linking)
VI  - 178
DP  - 2019 Nov
TI  - First results on transient plasma-based remediation of nanoscale particulate 
      matter in restaurant smoke emissions.
PG  - 108635
LID - S0013-9351(19)30432-3 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108635 [doi]
AB  - Recent studies have shown that nanoscale particulate matter produced in 
      commercial charbroiling processes represents a serious health hazard and has been 
      linked to various forms of cancer and cardiopulmonary disease. In this study, we 
      propose a highly effective method for treating restaurant smoke emissions using a 
      transient pulsed plasma reactor produced by nanosecond high voltage pulses. We 
      measure the size and relative mass distributions of particulate matter (PM) 
      produced in commercial charbroiling processes (e.g., cooking of hamburger meat) 
      both with and without the plasma treatment. Here, the plasma discharge is 
      produced in a 3" diameter cylindrical reactor with a 5-10 ns high voltage (17 kV) 
      pulse generator. The distribution of untreated nanoparticle sizes is peaked 
      around 125-150 nm in diameter, as measured using a scanning mobility particle 
      sizer (SMPS) spectrometer. With plasma treatment, we observe up to a 55-fold 
      reduction in relative particle mass and a significant reduction in the 
      nanoparticle size distribution using this method. The effectiveness of the 
      nanoscale PM remediation increases with both the pulse repetition rate and pulse 
      voltage, demonstrating the scalability of this approach for treating particulate 
      matter at higher flow rates and larger diameter reactors.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FAU - Yang, Sisi
AU  - Yang S
AD  - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los 
      Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
FAU - Subramanian, Sriram
AU  - Subramanian S
AD  - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern 
      California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
FAU - Singleton, Dan
AU  - Singleton D
AD  - Transient Plasma Systems, Inc., Torrance, CA 90501, USA.
FAU - Schroeder, Christi
AU  - Schroeder C
AD  - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern 
      California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
FAU - Schroeder, William
AU  - Schroeder W
AD  - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern 
      California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
FAU - Gundersen, Martin A
AU  - Gundersen MA
AD  - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern 
      California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, 
      University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
FAU - Cronin, Stephen B
AU  - Cronin SB
AD  - Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern 
      California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, 
      University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA. Electronic 
      address: scronin@usc.edu.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20190809
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Environ Res
JT  - Environmental research
JID - 0147621
RN  - 0 (Air Pollutants)
RN  - 0 (Particulate Matter)
RN  - 0 (Smoke)
SB  - IM
MH  - *Air Pollutants
MH  - *Cooking
MH  - Environmental Monitoring
MH  - Environmental Restoration and Remediation/*methods
MH  - Particle Size
MH  - *Particulate Matter
MH  - Restaurants/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Smoke
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Charbroiler emission
OT  - Nanoparticles
OT  - Particulate matter
OT  - Plasma
OT  - Remediation
EDAT- 2019/09/13 06:00
MHDA- 2020/04/25 06:00
CRDT- 2019/09/13 06:00
PHST- 2019/05/15 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/08/06 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/08/06 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/09/13 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/04/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/09/13 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0013-9351(19)30432-3 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108635 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Environ Res. 2019 Nov;178:108635. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2019.108635. Epub 2019 
      Aug 9.