(29e) Conventional and Emerging Mw/rf Processing Methods for Polymers, Plastics and Composites
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2008
2008 Spring Meeting & 4th Global Congress on Process Safety
AIChE / ACS Jointly Co-sponsored Sessions
Industrial Applications of Microwave and Radio Frequency Processing I
Monday, April 7, 2008 - 10:40am to 11:20am
There are great opportunities in the polymer, plastics and composites manufacturing industries to improve energy efficiency, materials utilization and product quality issues. Microwave (MW) and radio frequency (RF) heating technologies are underutilized tools that have the potential to bring competitive advantages to those manufacturers that can exploit the ability of these non-ionizing electromagnetic (EM) waves to volumetrically heat materials.
This paper will start by examining fundamental concepts important from the process development/materials engineering perspective, and will review state-of-the-art of dielectric materials processing in context with its history. This will be followed by an overview of emerging MW and RF methods, such as composites curing, polymer processing, solid phase polymerization, processing of heat sensitive emulsions, processing of conductive materials, and curing of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRPs).
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