Advances in Microwave and Radio Frequency Processing: Report from the 8th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Heating held in Bayreuth, Germany, September 3-7, 2001 / Edition 1

by M. Willert-Porada

Overview

Prometheus brought fire to mankind Arthur R. von Hippel “Dielectrics and Waves”, 1954 Our contribution? There are only few areas of research and development of a comparable scientific and technological extension as microwave and high frequency processing. “Pr- essing” means not only application of radiation of 300 MHz to 300 GHz f- quency to synthesis, heating or ionisation of matter but also generation, transm- sion and detection of microwave and radio frequency radiation. Microwave and high frequency sources positioned in the orbit are the foun- tion of modern satellite telecommunication systems, gyrotron tubes being pr- ently developed in different countries all over the world will most probably be the major devices to open up a new era of energy supply to mankind be means of - sion plasma. Although initiated by military purposes during the Second World War (RADAR, Radio Detection and Ranging), microwave and high frequency utilisation has spread over almost every important aspect of normal day life since than, from individual mobile phones and kitchen microwave ovens to industrial food processing, production of composites as sustainable building materials, green chemistry, medical applications and finally infrastructure installations like GPS and Galileo, to name only few examples. These different areas of microwave and high frequency radiation application can not be unified within one group of scientists and technologists. There are s- eral distinguished communities active e.g., in the area of telecommunication systems, strong microwaves for fusion plasma or plasma based materials processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642077555
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/19/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2006
Pages:	792
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

Hardware.- Measurement Techniques and Regulations.- Modelling.- Food Processing and Environmental Engineering Applications.- Microwave Applications in Chemistry.- Industrial Microwave Applications.- Fundamentals of Microwave Application to Materials Processing.- Microwave Sintering of Ceramics and Metals.- Synthesis and Microwave Processing of Powders.- New Applications and Processes Related to Microwave and RF Heating.