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Abstract
Most recent environmental regulations stringently focus on removing fine dust particles in industrial processes being their severe impacts, which pushes many research interests into developing pulse generators being the most effective measures for obtaining highest collection efficiency. Consequently, this thesis introduces two modular pulsed-power supplies. The first generator comprises of a Capacitor Diode Voltage Multiplier (CDVM) stage in conjunction with four Marx Generator (MG) stages providing the two isolated pulse energizations suitable for sectionalized Electrostatic Precipitators (ESPs). Whilst the second generator utilizes multiple ring transformers in conjunction with Voltage Doubler (VD) stages followed by MG stages. Generally, both generators are featured with their modular structures while achieving high boosting capability and low switch count with low-voltage and current ratings, as compared to the existing topologies. Both configurations adopt two different switching patterns (i.e., rectangular, and multilevel pulse modes), while the latter mode handles high pulsed current. The operational principles along with design equations and simulation results are presented for the two proposed approaches. A comparative study is conducted to elucidate the advantages of both proposed topologies against the existing ones. Finally, a 1.2-kV, 0.36-kW experimental setup has been built to show the viability of the first proposed generator.