Publication: Electrical treatment methods for sunflower seed germination enrichment
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2017
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Bibliographic Citation
2016 Management and Innovation Technology International Conference, MITiCON 2016. (2017), p.MIT22-MIT25
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Matra K. Electrical treatment methods for sunflower seed germination enrichment. 2016 Management and Innovation Technology International Conference, MITiCON 2016. (2017), p.MIT22-MIT25. doi:10.1109/MITICON.2016.8025254 Retrieved from: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14740/4085
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Abstract
In this research, germination enhancement of sunflower seeds by electrical methods has been proposed. The influence of non-thermal plasma and electric field treatment on germination improvement of sunflower seeds was studied. For the plasma-treated cases, sunflower seeds were irradiated by argon-oxygen plasma at the gas flow rate of 5:5 liter per minute. The experiments for electric field case, sunflowers were placed in the same magnitude of electric field in the plasma-treated cases, but mixed gas was not fed to the systems. All the experiments were treated for 90 seconds at the source voltage of 9, 11, 13 and 15 kilovolts. The experimental results showed that both methods could improving the germination rate and germination percentage of sunflower seeds. In both electrical treatment methods, the germinating rate was higher than that the controlled group for 14%, approximately. However, in the case of electric field treatment, the electric arc was easy to take place at high voltage, which could damage the sunflower seeds. © 2016 IEEE.
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Argon
Cultivation
Electric arcs
Electric discharges
Electric fields
Engineering research
Flow of gases
Glow discharges
HVDC power transmission
Electric field treatment
Electrical methods
Electrical treatment
Gas discharge
Germination percentages
Germination rates
Nonthermal plasma
Sunflower seeds
Seed
Cultivation
Electric arcs
Electric discharges
Electric fields
Engineering research
Flow of gases
Glow discharges
HVDC power transmission
Electric field treatment
Electrical methods
Electrical treatment
Gas discharge
Germination percentages
Germination rates
Nonthermal plasma
Sunflower seeds
Seed