Abstract BACKGROUND Lipid extraction is a major bottleneck for the commercialization of microalgae due to energy costs involved during solvent recycling. Direct transesterification offers possibility bypass step by immediately converting lipids fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs). In this study, efficiency direct after pulsed electric field (PEF) treatment was evaluated. Freshly harvested Auxenoch...

In a recent paper, Bensky et al. @Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3112 ~1998!# experimentally reattached an outgoing continuum electron to an ion using a pulsed electric field. Quantum and classical calculations are presented that illustrate the importance of various mechanisms for this reattachment process. The quantum calculations are based on a high-order impulse approximation. Both calculations suppor...

Electrical heating of the graphite die and punch assembly is a unique feature of the spark plasma sintering (SPS) process. The high currents needed to heat the die, despite its low resistance, can produce an electric field across the ceramic specimens that may be enough to induce field assisted sintering. Despite the large number of publications of SPS, the electric field intensity has not been...

Electrochemical reactions, especially those involving the electrode material, are considered one of the challenges facing the commercialization of the process of food preservation using pulsed electric fields. These undesired reactions lead to the migration of electrode material components into the food under treatment affecting food quality and taste, electric field distribution, and electrode...

Atmospheric pressure plasma produced by a slot antenna with a pulsed microwave excitation was investigated to understand an electric field influence on hydrogen Balmer- (H) spectral profile using spaceand time-resolved optical emission spectroscopy. Paralleland perpendicular-polarized H emission line profiles with respect to the microwave electric field direction were measured by a polarizat...