Microwave Material Processing for Distributed Energy System

摘要

Microwave material processing is attracting interest as a green technology for conserving energy and improving efficiency in conventional industrial processes for mitigating CO2 emissions. Because of various advantages over conventional methods, such as rapid and selective heating, as well its ability to provide internal heating of substances, microwave heating can reduce the time and lower the temperature necessary for material processing. Recently, we have proposed the material refinery and processing through microwave heating techniques. Microwave is one of the direct forms to transfer the electric energy into the substance to activate the chemical reaction and generate a heat without any heating media. In addition, microwave processing is rather specialized in short time process (hour) and small scale and distributed (m~3). Therefore, it is expected to achieve a good combination with the distributed renewable energy power generation, such solar cell, wind energy, and small hydro systems, for right material for right land.