Published April 2007 | Version v1
Journal article

Effects of Hydroxyl Radicals on Introduced Organisms of Ship's Ballast Water Based Micro-Gap Discharge

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Strong Electric-Field Ionization Discharge of Liaoning Province, Department of Physics, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian 116026 (China)

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With the physical method of micro-gap gas discharge, OH· radicals were produced by the ionization of O2 in air and H2O in the gaseous state, in order to explore more effective method to treat the ship's ballast water. The surface morphology of Al2O3 dielectric layer was analysed using Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), where the size of Al2O3 particles was in the range of 2 μm to 5 μm. At the same time, the biochemical effect of hydroxyl radicals on the introduced organisms and the quality of ship's ballast water were studied. The results indicate that the main reasons of cell death are lipid peroxide and damage of the antioxidant enzyme system in Catalase (CAT), Peroxidase (POD) and Superoxide dismutase (SOD). In addition, the quality of the ballast water was greatly improved

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Journal Title
Plasma Science and Technology
Journal Volume
9
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 206-210
ISSN
1009-0630