The subject of the offer is a method of decomposing antibiotics using a glow discharge specified in the invention, generated at atmospheric pressure, in contact with an aqueous solution – a liquid in which antibiotics are dissolved, in a flow system.
The essence of the method of decomposing antibiotics dissolved in aqueous solutions using non-thermal atmospheric plasma is that antibiotics, especially those from the tetracycline and chloramphenicol groups, are decomposed as a result of treating the aqueous solutions containing them with cold plasma generated by the use of a pm-rf-APGD type glow discharge.
The invention can be used in particular in sewage treatment plants for municipal, medical and pharmaceutical waste water or from specialist laboratories for the decomposition and deactivation of antibiotics, primarily from the tetracycline and chloramphenicol groups.
