Design and Implementation of a Pulsed Plasma System Combined With Image Processing For Plant Processing

Rezabeigi, Seddigheh; Ahmadi, Mohammad Taghi; Rahmani, Meisam; Kheiralipour, Kamran

doi:10.22103/bbr.2026.27546.1159

Design and Implementation of a Pulsed Plasma System Combined With Image Processing For Plant Processing

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Document Type : Original Research

Authors

Seddigheh Rezabeigi ¹

Mohammad Taghi Ahmadi ²^{, 1}

Meisam Rahmani ³

Kamran Kheiralipour ⁴

¹ Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran.

² Institute of Power Engineering, Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Jalan IKRAM-UNITEN, Kajang, Selangor 43000, Malaysia.

³ Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Buein Zahra Technical University, Buein Zahra, Qazvin, Iran.

⁴ Mechanical Engineering of Biosystems Department, Ilam University, Ilam, Iran.

10.22103/bbr.2026.27546.1159

Abstract

Applying plasma food and plant products to improve their quality is a novel goal considering the importance of food security for human societies. The present study aims to design and implement a portable and cost-effective plasma generator system for use in plant environments. Different dielectric materials were evaluated. To evaluate the system, the plasma was applied on the leaves of different plants. Also, image processing technology was applied to investigate the effect of pulsed plasma on plants. The results indicated the suitability of glass rather than paper dielectric. Based on the related image processing findings of samples, the effect of plasma on the color indices, it can be concluded that pulsed plasma was successful in drying the samples. The values of changed color indexes (R, G, B, L*, a*, and b*) indicate the dryness of the samples affected by plasma. So, the plasma system can be used as an in plant environment.

Keywords

Plasma generation

Pulsed plasma

Image processing

Plant drying

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