A combined wide and narrow pulse generator for processing microbes

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 375-381

  Tseng, S Y ^b   Wu, T F ^a   Chen, S S ^a   Wu, M W ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHIENKUO TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC POWER UTILIZATION; PHASE SHIFT; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; STERILIZATION (CLEANING);

NARROW PULSE GENERATOR; PWM CONTROL; SOLID FOOD STERILIZATION;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 33847705676     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESC.2005.1581651     Document Type: Conference Paper

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