Process for electro-hydrodynamically enhanced destruction of chemical air contaminants and airborne inactivation of biological agents

An electro-hydrodynamic system for destruction of biological pathogen particles, the electro-hydrodynamic system comprising:

• an air handling system having an interior volume configured to receive an airstream therethrough, said airstream entraining an aerosol containing large biological pathogen particles having diameters larger than 1 micrometer and small biological pathogen particles having diameters smaller than 1 micrometer;
• wherein said air handling system comprises an air inlet configured to receive said airstream comprising said aerosol having the large biological pathogen particles and the small biological pathogen particles;
• and
• an integrally-formed electric field and non-thermal plasma system configured to output an electric field configured to extract the large biological pathogen particles from the airstream and to exert electro-hydrodynamic (EHD) phenomena upon the airstream and the small biological pathogen particles contained within it, the integrally-formed electric field and non-thermal plasma system configured to further output a non-thermal plasma comprising at least one of radicals, excited species, and ionized atoms and molecules, the non-thermal plasma configured to chemically react with the small biological pathogen particles for destruction thereof, the integrally-formed electric field and non-thermal plasma system comprises a wire-plate non-thermal plasma system outputting the electric field and the non-thermal plasma, the wire-plate non-thermal plasma system having a plurality of wire electrodes spaced in the range of 0.25 m to 0.75 m.