Analysis of microwave heating of molybdenum concentrate in cylindrical container
作者单位：School of Material Science & Engineering Xian University of Architecture & Technology School of Architecture Xian University of Architecture & Technology
会议名称：《2011 4th IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology(ICCSIT 2011)》
会议日期：2011年
学科分类：080704[工学-流体机械及工程] 08[工学] 0807[工学-动力工程及工程热物理]
关 键 词：microwave heating molybdenum concentrate cylindrical container
摘 要：Microwave heating is very popular in mine industries as well as in home and abroad to warm up mine quickly. However, this technique provides non-uniform heating within the system. The potential existence of standing wave due to the transmission and reflection from interfaces is responsible for this non-uniform heating. Therefore, it is important to study the coupling between electromagnetic wave propagation and energy transfer in the system to predict the temperature distribution within the container. In this paper, a closed-form analytic solution is presented to predict the temperature distribution within a cylindrical shaped container under microwave heating by solving an unsteady energy equation. A simplified Maxwell’s equation is solved for electric field distribution within the body. The heat generation by microwave is calculated from the electric field distribution within the body using Poynting theorem. The effects of cylinder radius, heat transfer coefficient and incident frequency are studied for different length of the cylindrical container. It is found that the temperature within the body is very sensitive to cylinder length and time. The results indicate that uniform and effective heating depend on the proper integration of geometric parameters and dielectric properties of the object as well as the frequency of the incident electromagnetic wave. This rigorous analytic investigation will provide significant insight to understand and overcome the challenge of non-uniformity in temperature distribution in microwave heating.