Emerging cold plasma treatment on rice grains: A mini review.

Future demand of rice is projected to increase with the increase of global population. However, the presence of bacteria, insects, and fungi has resulted in various changes in the physical and chemical characteristics of rice grain. To make it worse, the overuse of post-harvest chemicals (fungicide and pesticide) has caused possible risks to human health through either occupational or non-occupational exposure. For the last few years, cold plasma has been developed as an alternative non-thermal emerging technology for rice grains treatment due to its ability to inactivate or decontaminate pathogens without causing thermal damage and free of any harmful residues. Therefore, this review describes the operational mechanism of cold plasma treatment technology on rice grains, existing reactor system designs, and parameters influenced by the treatment technology (reactor design parameters and treatment process parameters). Possible advanced investigation on future reactor design modification as well as standard operating range of influenced parameters were suggested for improved efficiency and effectiveness of cold plasma treatment.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Chemosphere

• Publication date

  2021-07-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Materials Science, Engineering, Environmental Science, Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/J.CHEMOSPHERE.2021.129972PMID 33979941
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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