Advances in Microwave and Radio Frequency Processing (eBook)

Hardware.- Understanding Microwave Heating Systems: A Perspective on State-of-the-Art.- Millimeter-Wave-Sources Development: Present and Future.- 3.5 kW 24 GHz Compact Gyrotron System for Microwave Processing of Materials.- Design Guidelines for Applicators Used in the Microwave Heating of High Losses Materials.- Design Parameters of Multiple Reactive Chokes for open Ports in Microwave Heating Systems.- Microwave High-Power Four Post Auto-Matching System.- Design of an Applicator for Processing of Nanoscale Zeolite/Polymer Composites with Superposed Static Magnetic Field.- Measurement Techniques and Regulations.- Measurement Techniques for Microwave and RF Processing.- Dielectric Characterisation of High Loss and Low Loss Materials at 2450 MHz.- European Regulations, Safety Issues in RF and Microwave Power.- Future Prosperity of Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) Applications of Microwaves.- Electric Field Measurements for Commercially-Available Mobile Phones.- Use of the Dielectric Properties to Detect Protein Denaturation.- Sandalwood Microwave Characterisation and oil Extraction.- Dielectric Spectroscopy and Principal Component Analysis as a Method for Oil Fraction Determination in oil-in Water-Emulsions with Varying Salt Content.- Microwave Non-Destructive Evaluation of Moisture Content in Liquid Composites in a Cylindrical Cavity at a Single Frequency.- Millimeter Wave Spectroscopy of Alumina-Zirconia System.- A Modified Cavity Perturbation Technique for Measurement of the Dielectric Constant of High Permittivity Materials.- Modelling.- Finite Elements in the Simulation of Dielectric Heating Systems.- Examination of Contemporary Electromagnetic Software Capable of Modeling Problems of Microwave Heating.- A Hybrid Approach for Resolving the Electromagnetic Fields Inside a Waveguide Loaded with a Lossy Medium.- A Novel FDTD System for Microwave Heating and Thawing Analysis with Automatic Time-Variation of Enthalpy-Dependent Media Parameters.- Simulation of Microwave Sintering with Advanced Sintering Models.- Finite Element Modelling of Thin Metallic Films for Microwave Heating.- Analysis of Coupled Electromagnetic and Thermal Modeling of Pressure-Aided Microwave Curing Processes.- Selective Heating and Moisture Levelling in Microwaveassisted Drying of Laminar Materials: an Explicit Model.- Microwave Heating of Ready Meals – FDTD Simulation Tools for Improving the Heating Uniformity.- Food Processing and Environmental Engineering Applications.- Novel and Traditional Microwave Applications in the Food Industry.- Microwave Drying: Process Engineering Aspects.- Quality of Microwave Heated Multicomponent Prepared Foods.- Sensory Evaluation of Dried Bananas Obtained from Air Dehydration Assisted by Microwaves.- Microwave Method for Increasing the Permeability of Wood and its Applications.- Selective Heating of Different Grain Parts of Wheat by Microwave Energy.- Microwave in Situ Remediation of Soils Polluted by Volatile Hydrocarbons.- Bio-Dielectric Soil Decontamination.- Waste Treatment under Microwave Irradiation.- Environmental Aspects of Microwave Heating in Polyelectrolyte Synthesis.- Microwave Applications in Chemistry.- Role of Microwave Radiation on Radiopharmaceuticals Preparations.- Fast Synthesis of Biodiesel from Triglycerides in Presence of Microwaves.- Alteration of Esterification Kinetics under Microwave Irradiation.- Multistep Microwave-Assisted Solvent-Free Organic Reactions: Synthesis of 1,6-Disubstituted-4-Oxo-1,4-Dihydro-Pyridine-3-Carboxylic Acid Benzyl Esters.- Recent Applications of Microwave Power for Applied Organic Chemistry.- Liquid Phase Catalytic Hydrodechlorination of Chlorobenzene under Microwave Irradiation.- Conventional and New Solvent Systems for Microwave Chemistry.- Industrial Microwave Applications.- State of the Art of Microwave Applications in the Food Industry in the USA.- Microwave Vacuum Drying in the Food Processing Industry.- Development of an Industrial Solid Phase Polymerization Process Using Fifty-Ohm Radio Frequency Technology.- RF World Tour.- Fundamentals of Microwave Application to Materials Processing.- How the Coupling of Microwave and RF Energy in Materials can Affect Solid State Charge and Mass Transport and Result in Unique Processing Effects.- Enhanced Mass and Charge Transfer in Solids Exposed to Microwave Fields.- Thermal Runaway and Hot Spots under Controlled Microwave Heating.- Densification and Diffusion Processes in the Ba,Sr-Titanate System under Microwave Sintering.- Observation of the Microwave Effect On the Diffusion Behavior in 28 GHz Millimeter-Wave Sintered Alumina.- Dilatometer Measurements in a mm-Wave Oven.- In Situ Determination of Shrinkage under Microwave Conditions.- Multistable Behaviour in Microwave Heating of Ceramics.- Microwave Sintering of Ceramics and Metals.- Microwave Sintering of Silicon Nitride Ceramics.- Novel Materials Processing by Millimeter-Wave Radiation - Present and Future.- Correlation Between Densification and ? - Phase Formation at Microwave Sintering of Si3n4 Ceramics.- Sintering Behaviour and Mechanical Properties of Microwave Sintered Silicon Nitride.- Millimeter-Wave Sintering of High Pure Alumina – Microstructure and Mechanical Properties.- Microwave Sintering of Large-Size Ceramic Workpieces.- Microwave Assisted Sintering of Al2O3.- Absorption of Millimeter Waves in Composite Metal-Ceramic Materials.- Microwave Sintering of PM Steels.- Formation of Functionally Graded Cemented Carbides by Microwave Assisted Sintering in Reactive Atmosheres.- Synthesis and Microwave Processing of Powders.- Microwave Plasma Synthesis of Ceramic Powders.- Microwave and Conventional Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zirconia Doped Powders.- Microwave Decomposition of Metal Alkoxides to Nanoporous Metal Oxides – a Mechanistic Study.- Characterization of SIC Produced by Microwaves.- Microwave Assisted Synthesis of Catalyst Materials for Pem Fuel Cells.- Excitation of Sodium in Powderlike Silicates by Microwave Heating.- New Applications and Processes Related to Microwave and RF Heating.- RF and Microwave Rapid Magnetic Induction Heating of Silicon Wafers.- Industrial Higher Frequency Microwave Processing of Composite Materials.- Drilling Into Hard Non-Conductive Materials by Localized Microwave Radiation.- Design of Avionic Microwave De-/Anti-Icing Systems.- Application of Microwave to Glaze and Ceramic Industry.- Microwave Assisted Binder Burnout.- CVD-Processes in Microwave Heated Fluidized Bed Reactors.- Processing of Carbon-Fiber Reinforced Composite (CFRP) Materials with Innovative Millimeter-Wave Technology.- Basic Research and Industrial Production Using the Spark Plasma System (SPS).- Combined Processes: Laser Assisted Microwave Processing and Sintercoating.