Utilizing Plasma Technology in Agricultural Production: Engineering Innovations and Field Applications
A Special Issue of AgriEngineering (ISSN 2624-7402).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2027 | Viewed by 1346
Editors
Interests: plasma medicine; plasma-liquid interaction; plasma agriculture; plasma food technology; plasma waste/wastewater management; plasma fertilizer; underwater liquid discharge for nanoparticle & ionic liquid synthesis, etc.
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Interests: plasma agriculture; plasma physics; biophysics; physical chemistry; surface chemistry; materials chemistry
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Plasma technology is gaining increasing attention as an innovative engineering solution for sustainable agricultural production, and advances in non-thermal and atmospheric-pressure plasma systems have enabled novel applications across seed treatment, crop growth enhancement, irrigation water activation, pathogen control, and postharvest processing. From an agricultural engineering perspective, the successful adoption of plasma technologies depends on system design, energy efficiency, scalability, automation, and integration with existing agricultural infrastructure.
This Special Issue, “Utilizing Plasma Technology in Agricultural Production: Engineering Innovations and Field Applications,” aims to highlight recent progress in the development, optimization, and deployment of plasma-based technologies for agriculture. Contributions focusing on reactor design, process modeling, system integration, pilot-scale studies, and field applications are particularly encouraged. The Special Issue seeks to bridge laboratory research and practical implementation, providing insights into techno-economic feasibility, sustainability, and engineering challenges associated with large-scale agricultural use of plasma technology.
Dr. Vikas Rathore
Prof. Dr. Sureeporn Sarapirom
Dr. Khanit Matra
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agricultural engineering
- plasma reactor design
- non-thermal plasma systems
- atmospheric-pressure plasma
- plasma
- activated water systems
- process optimization
- system integration
- energy-efficient technologies
- precision agriculture engineering
- postharvest engineering
- sustainable agricultural systems
- scale-up and field implementation
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