A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators
In this work a new design concept in the field of microwave heating assisted chemical reactors is proposed focusing on two main innovations. The first one consists in combining the resonant cavity and the vessel in the same volume, improving the durability of the system by using a metallic material...
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| author | Alberto Frisa-Rubio Maria Campo-Valera Marcel Mallah Gonzalo Murillo-Ciordia Ignacio Rodriguez-Rodriguez |
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| description | In this work a new design concept in the field of microwave heating assisted chemical reactors is proposed focusing on two main innovations. The first one consists in combining the resonant cavity and the vessel in the same volume, improving the durability of the system by using a metallic material for the vessel. The second consists of integrating antennas as applicator ports for energy transmission from the magnetron into the cavity, instead of waveguides, allowing greater design flexibility in terms of cavity and system dimensions. In this work, a microwave reactor with four electromagnetic energy emitting antennas is optimized. This innovation is evaluated by means of a simulation model that solves the finite element method (FEM) using the commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics coupling radio frequency and heat transfer physics. Within this work, simulations have demonstrated the microwave heating process in the configured chemical reactor where the implementation of standard waveguides would not be possible due to the incompatible size required in the selected diameter dimension for 106 litres. Therefore, the results achieved lay the foundation for the construction of a microwave reactor intended to drive the industrial process of chemical recycling of polymers on a large industrial scale. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-74c6a13dd16643fb85f4bd014e663e682023-04-25T23:00:24ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362023-01-0111394483945610.1109/ACCESS.2023.326853810105198A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as ApplicatorsAlberto Frisa-Rubio0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9059-2569Maria Campo-Valera1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0084-3844Marcel Mallah2Gonzalo Murillo-Ciordia3https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6927-6589Ignacio Rodriguez-Rodriguez4https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0118-3406CIRCE-Centro Tecnológico (Research Centre for Energy Resources and Consumption), Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Information and Communication Technologies, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Antigones, SpainFricke und Mallah Microwave Technology GmbH, Peine, GermanyCIRCE-Centro Tecnológico (Research Centre for Energy Resources and Consumption), Zaragoza, SpainDepartment of Communications Engineering, Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, SpainIn this work a new design concept in the field of microwave heating assisted chemical reactors is proposed focusing on two main innovations. The first one consists in combining the resonant cavity and the vessel in the same volume, improving the durability of the system by using a metallic material for the vessel. The second consists of integrating antennas as applicator ports for energy transmission from the magnetron into the cavity, instead of waveguides, allowing greater design flexibility in terms of cavity and system dimensions. In this work, a microwave reactor with four electromagnetic energy emitting antennas is optimized. This innovation is evaluated by means of a simulation model that solves the finite element method (FEM) using the commercial software COMSOL Multiphysics coupling radio frequency and heat transfer physics. Within this work, simulations have demonstrated the microwave heating process in the configured chemical reactor where the implementation of standard waveguides would not be possible due to the incompatible size required in the selected diameter dimension for 106 litres. Therefore, the results achieved lay the foundation for the construction of a microwave reactor intended to drive the industrial process of chemical recycling of polymers on a large industrial scale.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10105198/Microwave heating technologyelectromagnetic antennasresonant cavityFEM simulationmultiphysics engineering application |
| spellingShingle | Alberto Frisa-Rubio Maria Campo-Valera Marcel Mallah Gonzalo Murillo-Ciordia Ignacio Rodriguez-Rodriguez A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators IEEE Access Microwave heating technology electromagnetic antennas resonant cavity FEM simulation multiphysics engineering application |
| title | A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators |
| title_full | A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators |
| title_fullStr | A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators |
| title_short | A Novel Combined Design of Vessel and Resonant Cavity for Microwave Multi-Frequency Heating Chemical Reactor Using Antennas as Applicators |
| title_sort | novel combined design of vessel and resonant cavity for microwave multi frequency heating chemical reactor using antennas as applicators |
| topic | Microwave heating technology electromagnetic antennas resonant cavity FEM simulation multiphysics engineering application |
| url | https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10105198/ |
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