Patent · US Expired

Continuous flow microwave heater

US6917022B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH · DE

Inventors

Lambert Feher · Linkenheim-Hochstetten, DE
Hartmut Baumgartner · Karlsdorf-Neuthard, DE
Guido Link · Weingarten, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 8, 2003
Grant date	Jul 12, 2005
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 8, 2023

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05B6/70
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In a continuous flow microwave heater for heating a fluid including a microwave source connected to an applicator so as to supply microwave energy to the applicator, the applicator is a rectangular block-like resonator space with opposite front walls and side walls with a microwave in-coupling opening in one of the side walls through which the microwave energy is supplied to the resonator space in which a linearly polarized base mode TE10 is excited. A dielectric tube extends through the resonator space to conduct the fluid to be heated through the applicator, the dielectric tube being so arranged that the microwave energy supplied to the applicator is completely dis-sipated into the fluid flowing through the dielectric tube.

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