Engineers' Handbook of Industrial Microwave Heating

Roger Meredith is a Chartered Engineer and a graduate of the University of Bristol in Electrical Engineering. He received his practical training at the British-Thomson Houston Co., Rugby, joining the radar engineering department in 1953. Over the next 15 years he was concerned with all aspects of microwave engineering in radar systems, including high power transmitters. In 1968 he formed Magnetronics Ltd, specialising in industrial microwave energy through the design and manufacture of process equipment. In the late 1980s the company was acquired by APV Ltd. He took early retirement in 1992 and is now consultant to selected clients. He has presented several papers at international conferences and is co-author of Industrial Microwave Heating (IEE, 1983). He served with the British National Committee for Electroheat for many years and is inventor of several patents on microwave topics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction and fundamental conceptsChapter 2: Microwave interaction with dielectric materialsChapter 3: The thermodynamic aspects of volumetric heatingChapter 4: Microwave transmission: theory and practiceChapter 5: Microwave-heating applicators 1: multimode ovensChapter 6: Microwave-heating applicators 2: aperiodic structuresChapter 7: Microwave-heating applicators 3: resonant structuresChapter 8: Choking (attenuation) tunnels for continuous-flow applicatorsChapter 9: Microwave generators 1: microwave power tubesChapter 10: Microwave generators 2: electrical power sourcesChapter 11: Outline of microwave measurements on components and materialsChapter 12: Procedures for testing high-power installationsChapter 13: Equipment safetyAppendices