Bipolar narrow-pulse generator with energy-recovery feature for liquid-food sterilization

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 123-132

  Tseng, Sheng Yu ^a   Wu, Tsai Fu ^b   Wu, Ming Wai ^c  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c AcBel Polytech Inc   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Active clamp circuit; Bipolar narrow pulse generator; Synchronous switch technique

Indexed keywords

INDUCTANCE; LEAKAGE CURRENTS; POWER CONVERTERS; STERILIZATION (CLEANING); SYNCHRONOUS GENERATORS;

ACTIVE-CLAMP CIRCUITS; BIDIRECTIONAL FLYBACK CONVERTER; NARROW-PULSE GENERATOR; VOLTAGE STRESS;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 38349029408     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.896047     Document Type: Article

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