Numerical modeling dynamic process of multi-feed microwave heating of industrial solution media

Abstract

The exothermic efficiency of microwave heating an electrolyte/water solution is remarkably high due to the dielectric heating by orientation polarization of water and resistance heating by the Joule process occurred simultaneously compared with pure water. A three-dimensional finite element numerical model of multi-feed microwave heating industrial liquids continuously flowing in a meter-scale circular tube is presented. The temperature field inside the applicator tube in the cavity is solved by COMSOL Multiphysics and professional programming to describe the momentum, energy and Maxwell’s equations. The evaluations of the electromagnetic field, the temperature distribution and the velocity field are simulated for the fluids dynamically heated by single- and multi-feed microwave system, respectively. Both the pilot experimental investigations and numerical results of microwave with single-feed heating for fluids with different effective permittivity and flow rates show that the presented numerical modeling makes it possible to analyze dynamic process of multi-feed microwave heating the industrial liquid. The study aids in enhancing the understanding and optimizing of dynamic process in the use of multi-feed microwave heating industrial continuous flow for a variety of material properties and technical parameters.

Keywords

microwave with multi-feed heating / industrial flow / dynamical process / numerical computation / solution media

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