Microwave Heating
Continuous Wave (CW) Microwave energy offers efficient, cost-effective methods of drying, heating, curing and sterilizing products in industrial manufacturing processes.
Richardson Electronics designs, manufactures, and distributes a full range of components and complete, turn-key systems for most types of microwave drying and heating applications.
Richardson Electronics designs, manufactures, and distributes a full range of components and complete, turn-key systems for most types of microwave drying and heating applications.
- Ceramic industry
- Chemical reactions
- Chemistry / Pharmacy
- Cornea reshaping
- Dairy certification: Fat extraction
- Diathermy
- Dielectric determination
- Disinfection
- Drying: Clay, Ceramic, Foam, Rubber, Glue, Ink, Milk, Molds, Paper board, Pharmaceuticals, Plaster board, Polymers, Solids, Wood blocks, Wood panels
- Electron Cyclotron Resonance (ECR)
- Herb processing
- Hyperthermia for cancer treatment
- Industrial drying
- Lasers: Gas excitation
- Mineral / Ore extraction
- Moisture / Solids ration: Ashification
- Nuclear waste disposal
- Oil: Liquefaction of crude
- Pasteurization
- Photoresist stripper
- Plastics
- Rubber: Curing, Foaming, Recycling, Vulcanization
- Sample dissolutions using heated acids
- Sintering ceramics
- Solvent recovery
- Spectrometry: Coupled plasma, Sterilizing hospital wastes, Thawing frozen blood plasma
- Vacuum drying
- Wood industry
Microwave Processing Capabilities
High-power magnetrons are used as the source of microwave energy for a wide range of applications within the food production industry.
Richardson Electronics supplies components and complete systems for microwave food processing applications.
- Baking bread
- Blanching vegetables
- Cooking soup ingredients
- Disinfection of grain
- Drying molasses
- Enzyme inactivation
- Pasta drying
- Pasteurization in shipping containers
- Puff-dried snack foods
- Rendering bacon
- Roasting peanuts for peanut butter
- Sealing food containers
- Sterilization of fertilizer and soil
- Tempering frozen meat
If your specific need is not listed here, our engineering team can develop a solution to meet your technical requirements.
