- Balkan Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Cilt: 11 Sayı: 4
- A Modular Multilevel Converter-Based Pulsed Electric Field Generator Design for Electroporation Appl...
A Modular Multilevel Converter-Based Pulsed Electric Field Generator Design for Electroporation Applications
Authors : Övül Eski, Kemal Şahin, Sevilay Çetin
Pages : 373-379
Doi:10.17694/bajece.1301685
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Publication Date : 2023-12-22
Article Type : Research
Abstract :After a short historical background and mentioning common application areas and different clinical modalities of pulsed electric fields and the phenomena such as electro permeabilization and electroporation are introduced based on the concept of the basic mechanism. Subsequently, pulse generation (PG) and the adapted modular multilevel converter (MMC) topology that is to be covered are introduced including the operating principles and very basic analysis. Finally, performance of the proposed MMC with four half bridge submodules is tested on a prototype built in laboratory. A bidirectional voltage is produced with 80 V amplitude pulsating at 100 kHz operation frequency.Keywords : Pulsed Electric Fields (PEFs), pulse generation (PG), Multimodule converters (MMCs), electroporation (EP).