A transition arm modular multilevel universal pulse-waveform generator for electroporation applications

Elgenedy, Mohamed A. and Badawy, Ahmed and Ahmed, Shehab and Williams, Barry W. (2017) A transition arm modular multilevel universal pulse-waveform generator for electroporation applications. IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0885-8993 (https://doi.org/10.1109/TPEL.2017.2653243)

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Abstract

High voltage (HV) pulses are used in electroporation to subject pulsed electric field (PEF) onto a sample under treatment. Pulse-waveform shape, voltage magnitude, pulse duration, and pulse repetition rate are the basic controllable variables required for particular PEF application. In practice, a custom-made pulse generator is dedicated for each PEF application with limited flexibility in changing these variables. In this paper, a universal pulse-waveform generator (UPG) is proposed, where the controller software-algorithm can manipulate a basic generated multilevel pulse-waveform to emulate many different PEF pulse-waveforms. The commonly used PEF HV pulse-waveforms can be generated as bipolar or monopolar with controllable pulse durations, repetition times, and voltage magnitudes. The UPG has the ability to generate multilevel pulses that have controllable dv/dt which allow reduction of the electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by the converter. The UPG topology is based on half-bridge modular multilevel converter (HB-MMC) cells forming two transition arms in conjunction with two bi-state arms, together creating an H-bridge. The HB-MMC cell-capacitors provide a controllable energy source which charge from the dc input supply and discharge across the load, while the two bi-state arms allow charging the HB-MMC cell-capacitors. Hence, the UPG topology offers modularity, redundancy, and scalability. The HB-MMC individual cell-capacitance is low and the cell-voltages are balanced by employing the sorting and rotating algorithm used in conventional HB-MMC topologies for HVDC transmission applications. The viability of the proposed UPG converter is validated by MATLAB/Simulink simulation and scaled-down experimentation.

  • Item type:Article
    ID code:59418
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    16 January 2017
    Published
    16 January 2017
    Published Online
    3 January 2017
    Accepted
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    Subjects:Technology > Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
    Department:Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:13 Jan 2017 09:45
    Last modified:08 Apr 2024 23:19
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/59418
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