@article{1a8c01da01274355884557fea22d0ba3,
title = "A Pulsed Electric Field (PEF) bench static system to study bacteria inactivation",
abstract = "Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) technology is a promising non-thermal processing method for inactivation of microorganisms. A small PEF bench system able to treat a 0.4 ml static liquid volume has been built and tested at the laboratories of the Universit{\`a} del Piemonte Orientale in Alessandria, Italy. The technique used to produce the required fields consists of charging high voltage cables of various lengths and subsequently discharge them on a cylindrical cell. The pulse intensity can be adjusted to reach a maximum electric field in the cell of about 35 kV/cm and the pulse frequency can reach 10 Hz. We describe the PEF system in some detail and, as a benchmark of its performances, we report preliminary results obtained on Escherichia coli (ATCC 25922) at 109 Cfu/ml concentration suspended in a McIlvaine buffer (pH 7.2).",
author = "Pietro Cortese and Giuseppe Dellacasa and Roberto Gemme and Sara Bonetta and Silvia Bonetta and Elisabetta Carraro and Francesca Motta and Marco Paganoni and Marco Pizzichemi",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank Silvano Gallian of the INFN section of Torino-Italy who took a great and irreplaceable part in designing and building the apparatus. We deeply acknowledge Dr. Cesare Ponti of the PONTI S.p.A. for providing us with the Samtech trigger generator TG-01. We are indebted to Dr. Peter Pearce and to the TERA foundation which took part in the early stage of the project. Discussions with Prof. Gio-vanna Ferrari and Ing. Gian Piero Pataro of the Salerno University - Italy have been very fruitful. The project has been totally funded by the Piedmont Region (Italy) in the frame of the CIPE 2007 program in the section Food Security.",
year = "2011",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2011.03.165",
language = "English",
volume = "215",
pages = "162--164",
journal = "Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements",
issn = "0920-5632",
publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",
number = "1",
}