Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Zur F&#xf6;rderung Der Wissenschaften E. V.

Adtec Europe Limited

Terraplasma Gmbh

Bernd Steffes

Gregor Eugen Morfill

Tetsuji Shimizu

Shuitsu Fujii

Julia Zimmermann

Yangfang Li

Gregor Morfill

A method for deactivating preferably odor-relevant molecules that is distinguished by the following steps is proposed: generating a plasma; deactivating preferably odor-relevant molecules by the effect of hot electrons of the plasma on the molecules to be deactivated.

Method for deactivating preferably odor-relevant molecules and device for carrying out said method

The invention relates to an electrode arrangement () for generating a non-thermal plasma, comprising: a layer-shaped first electrode () made of an electrically conductive material, a layer-shaped second electrode () made of an electrically conductive material, wherein the second electrode () is electrically insulated from the first electrode (), and a dielectric barrier () being arranged between the first electrode () and the second electrode (), so that the non-thermal plasma is generated by a dielectric barrier discharge. The inventive electrode arrangement is characterized in that at least one of the first electrode () and the second electrode () comprises several perforations which are distributed over the electrode.

Electrode arrangement for generating a non-thermal plasma

The invention relates to a plasma source () comprising: a conduit () carrying a gas flow and an ionization chamber () in which a plasma is generated, wherein the ionization chamber () is connected to the conduit (), so that the gas flow in the conduit () carries away gas particles out of the ionization chamber () thereby reducing the pressure in the ionization chamber ().

Plasma source

A plasma source, particularly for disinfection of wounds, comprising: an ionization chamber having an inlet for introducing a gas into the ionization chamber and further having an outlet for dispensing the ionized gas onto an object; several ionization electrodes being disposed within the ionization chamber for ionizing the gas and a predetermined ratio of the electrode-electrode distance on the one hand and the electrode-wall distance on the other hand, wherein the ratio is in a range approximately between about 1.8 and about 2.2.

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Garching, Germany

Bernd Steffes