Experimental and theoretical investigation on microwave melting of metals
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...[85] conducted microwave heating and melting of lead, tin, aluminium and copper with the aid of susceptor and compared the melting characteristics of metals using the microwave of 1300W capacity and a muffle furnace (conventional) of 2500 W capacity....
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...[85] conducted microwave heating and melting of lead, tin, aluminium and copper with the aid of susceptor and compared the melting characteristics of metals using the Figure 2....
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...—Melting of 100 g of (a) lead, (b) tin, (c) aluminum, and (d) copper metals at various levels of microwave power [119]....
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...—Comparison of conventional melting time of aluminium metal with microwave melting time [119]....
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...Skin depth is a measure of depth of microwave penetration in which the field is attenuated by 1/e of its value at the surface (Metaxas and Meredith, 1983)....
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...Microwave heating receives considerable attention due to its major advantages such as high heating rates, reduced processing time, low power consumption and less environmental hazards (Jones et al., 2002)....
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..., 2007), curing of polymers in order to improve their strength (Yarlagadda and Hsu, 2004) and treatment of wastes which were more energy efficient than conventional methods (Appleton et al., 2005)....
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...…et al., 2007), processing of high melting temperature glasses at high heating rates (Almeida et al., 2007), curing of polymers in order to improve their strength (Yarlagadda and Hsu, 2004) and treatment of wastes which were more energy efficient than conventional methods (Appleton et al., 2005)....
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...4 metals are known to reflect microwaves, as their skin depth is of the order of few microns (Gupta and Wong, 2007)....
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...Microwaves cause sparking of metallic materials and most metals are known to reflect microwaves, as their skin depth is of the order of few microns (Gupta and Wong, 2007)....
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