Applicator design for microwave enhanced microprocessing

Conference Paper (2011)
Author(s)

Guido Sturm (TU Delft - Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems)

M. D. Verweij (ImPhys/Acoustical Wavefield Imaging )

TDT van Gerven (TU Delft - Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

G Stefanidis (TU Delft - Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems)

AI Stankiewicz (TU Delft - Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems)

Research Group
Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems
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Publication Year
2011
Language
English
Research Group
Intensified Reaction and Separation Systems
Pages (from-to)
48-51
ISBN (print)
9782854289787

Abstract

This research investigates heating in microreactors by application of microwave fields. Problems encountered with microwave heating equipment currently used in microwave enhanced chemistry research are: hardto-predict electromagnetic field patterns, the lack of controllability and optimizabillity of heat generation, and low utilization efficiency. This conflicts with the highly optimized processing conditions that are characteristic for microreactor systems. These issues are related to the resonant nature of microwave fields. To avoid these problems a novel coaxial traveling microwave field applicator is proposed here and a method to optimize it is demonstrated.

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