Abstract: Chloramphenicol(CAP), as a broad-spectrum antibiotic, is difficult to be removed by traditional sewage treatment because of its stability in water environment. As an advanced oxidation technology, plasma technology has been proved to degrade organic pollutants in water. However, the traditional dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma technology has the problem of weak penetration, which limits its application in CAP degradation. To solve this problem, a new DBD plasma device is designed in this paper. The device introduces a peristaltic pump on the basis of conventional designs to ensure that all CAP contaminants can come into direct contact with the active substance, thus significantly improving the removal rate of CAP. The effects of the initial concentration of CAP, the amount of CAP solution, the flow rate of peristaltic pump and the discharge power on the degradation of CAP were experimentally investigated. The results showed that under the conditions of 20 mg/L initial concentration of CAP and 25 W discharge power, the device could achieve 80.4% degradation efficiency. cy within 25 min. In addition, the effects of common anions(such as $ Cl^{-} $, $ CO_{3}^{2-} $, $ HCO_{3}^{-} $, $ NO_{3}^{-} $) and humus on CAP degradation were studied. It was found that these substances would react with the active substances produced by the discharge, thus inhibiting the degradation of CAP. Finally, the degradation intermediates were detected by mass spectrometry and the possible degradation paths were proposed. This study not only provides a new technical way for the degradation of CAP, but also provides an important reference for the application of plasma technology in the field of environmental pollution control.
Keywords: chloramphenicol(CAP); dielectric barrier discharge(DBD) plasma; anions; humus