The effect of nonthermal dielectric barrier discharge plasma on salmonella enterica and campylobacter jejuni on raw poultry

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Patrick Dirks
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge ◽  
Campylobacter Jejuni ◽  
Salmonella Enterica ◽  
Discharge Plasma ◽  
Barrier Discharge ◽  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Dielectric Barrier ◽  
Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Raw Poultry

Treatment of Raw Poultry with Nonthermal Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma To Reduce Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella enterica

2012 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRIAN P. DIRKS ◽  
DANIL DOBRYNIN ◽  
GREGORY FRIDMAN ◽  
YURI MUKHIN ◽  
ALEXANDER FRIDMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge ◽  
Discharge Plasma ◽  
Barrier Discharge ◽  
Chicken Breast ◽  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Plasma Exposure ◽  
Dielectric Barrier ◽  
Chicken Skin ◽  
Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Raw Poultry

Nonthermal plasma has been shown to be effective in reducing pathogens on the surface of a range of fresh produce products. The research presented here investigated the effectiveness of nonthermal dielectric barrier discharge plasma on Salmonella enterica and Campylobacter jejuni inoculated onto the surface of boneless skinless chicken breast and chicken thigh with skin. Chicken samples were inoculated with antibiotic-resistant strains of S. enterica and C. jejuni at levels of 101 to 104 CFU and exposed to plasma for a range of time points (0 to 180 s in 15-s intervals). Surviving antibiotic-resistant pathogens were recovered and counted on appropriate agar. In order to determine the effect of plasma on background microflora, noninoculated skinless chicken breast and thighs with skin were exposed to air plasma at ambient pressure. Treatment with plasma resulted in elimination of low levels (101 CFU) of both S. enterica and C. jejuni on chicken breasts and C. jejuni from chicken skin, but viable S. enterica cells remained on chicken skin even after 20 s of exposure to plasma. Inoculum levels of 102,103, and 104 CFU of S. enterica on chicken breast and chicken skin resulted in maximum reduction levels of 1.85, 2.61, and 2.54 log, respectively, on chicken breast and 1.25, 1.08, and 1.31 log, respectively, on chicken skin following 3 min of plasma exposure. Inoculum levels of 102, 103, and 104 CFU of C. jejuni on chicken breast and chicken skin resulted in maximum reduction levels of 1.65, 2.45, and 2.45 log, respectively, on chicken breast and 1.42, 1.87, and 3.11 log, respectively, on chicken skin following 3 min of plasma exposure. Plasma exposure for 30 s reduced background microflora on breast and skin by an average of 0.85 and 0.21 log, respectively. This research demonstrates the feasibility of nonthermal dielectric barrier discharge plasma as an intervention to help reduce foodborne pathogens on the surface of raw poultry.

Impact of dielectric barrier discharge plasma on the wake of a wind turbine blade section oscillating in plunge

2021 ◽  
pp. 095765092110337
Author(s):  
GH Maleki ◽  
Ali R Davari ◽  
MR Soltani
Keyword(s):  
Wind Turbine ◽  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge ◽  
Turbine Blade ◽  
Discharge Plasma ◽  
Barrier Discharge ◽  
Wind Turbine Blade ◽  
Plasma Actuators ◽  
Dielectric Barrier Discharge Plasma ◽  
Dielectric Barrier ◽  
Barrier Discharge Plasma

Effects of dielectric barrier discharge plasma have been studied on the wake velocity profiles of a section of a 660 kW wind turbine blade in plunging motion in a wind tunnel. The corresponding unsteady velocity profiles show remarkable improvement when the plasma actuators were operating and the angles of attack of the model were beyond the static stall angles of the airfoil. As a result the drag force was considerably reduced. It is further observed that the plasma-induced flow attenuates the leading edge vortices that are periodically shed into wake and diminishes the large eddies downstream. The favorable effects of the plasma augmentation are shown to occur near the uppermost and lowermost positions of the plunging paths where the wake is primarily dominated by the vortices of the same sign. The wake structure in the presence of the flow induced by the plasma actuators shows that the actual effective angles of attack seen by the plunging airfoil reduces in comparison with that for the case of the plasma augmentation off situation.

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