There is a need for alternative technologies that can deliver safe and nutritious foods at
lower costs as compared to conventional processes. Pulsed electric field (PEF) technology …

During the last decades, millisecond, microsecond, and nanosecond electric pulses were all
successfully used for both biological and medical applications. Among medical applications …

This article presents the electrical and mechanical design of a compact 13-stage 0.5-MV
Marx generator operating at a pulse repetition frequency (PRF) of 100 Hz. The fast-switching …

Gas discharge and breakdown phenomena have become increasingly important for the
development of an ever-growing number of applications. The need for compact and …

Gelidium corneum (syn. sesquipedale) is an industrially and ecologically important species
of red alga used for the production of high-quality agar. However, the species is also of …

Impact-ionization wave triggering of a thyristor enables it to switch significantly higher
currents with much faster rise times () than through conventional triggering; indeed tests on …

The temperature is closely related to the operating state of the thyristors in repetitive pulsed
power applications. To study the thermal behaviors of the thyristor at high blocking voltage …

This article investigates the use of off-the-shelf (OTS) diodes as opening switches in a 500-
kV nanosecond pulsed power generator. A 40-J test bench based on a saturable pulse …

1.3 Aims and objectives This project utilises PEF technology at various conditions (ie pulse
width, electric field intensity, specific energy input, and peak temperatures) to study the …