An investigation of the heating of wood in an industrial microwave applicator: Theory and practice

Drying Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1665-1676

  Antti, A L ^a   Zhao, H ^b   Turner, I ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distribution; Electromagnetic field; EMFV TD method; IR; Model; Power; Temperature

Indexed keywords

APPLICATORS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; INDUSTRIAL HEATING; INFRARED IMAGING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROWAVE HEATING; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; WOOD;

COMPUTATIONAL ELECTROMAGNETIC MODEL; INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE APPLICATOR;

DRYING;

HEATING; MICROWAVE DRYING; WOOD;

EID: 0034282980     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930008917805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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