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The Myth, The Legend, The Microwave Heating & Cooking

In recent years, microwave heating has become increasingly popular all over the world, in particular for modern household as well as commercial food-processing applications, due to increased economic merits in many developing countries such as steady economic growth, high disposable income, etc. Microwave heating is known for its operational safety and nutrient retention capacity with minimal loss of heat-labile nutrients and vitamins, dietary antioxidant phenols and carotenoids. This review is aimed at providing a brief yet comprehensive update on prospects of microwave heating for food processing applications, with special emphasis on the benefits over conventional heating and its impact on food quality in terms of microbial and nutritional value changes. Microwave cooking  is a process whereby microwave rays produced by magnetrons are directed toward food items or heating medium, which absorb the electromagnetic energy volumetrically to achieve self-heating uniformly and rapidly

Types of Process Heating Applications and Operations

Process heating finds its application in various type of industrial application across different industry verticals. Single manufacturing process involves different type of heat treatments. Hence, it’s important to understand which type of heating application is required in your processing. In layman’s language process heating is just generation of heat and transfer to product under process, however there are lot of technicalities involved based on type of product, time of manufacturing, desired output quality, intermediate processes and etc. Process heating applications can be grouped into 14 key categories: Agglomeration and Sintering Incineration/Thermal Oxidation Calcining Melting: High-Temperature Curing Melting: Low-Temperature Drying Metals Reheating Heating Fluid Separating Forming Smelting Heat Treating Other Heating Processes * Application of Process heating is not limited to only these 14 categories, there are endless potential application of process heating.

Electric Infrared Process Heating System

Electric infrared processing systems are used for many applications such as heating, drying, curing, thermal-bonding, sintering, and sterilizing applications by manufacturing companies. Most common application of the electric infrared is in which only the surface of an object needs to be heated. Infrared is the part of the electromagnetic spectrum that falls between visible light and radio waves. Infrared wavelengths range from 0.8 to 10 microns. Infrared energy, can be transmitted, absorbed, and reflected, like light and this is possible only when the object being heated is in line-of-sight of the emitters and/or reflector. Few infrared systems designed for to cure coatings that are not in line of sight. A typical electric infrared  heating systems  will always consist of an emitter, a reflector system, and controls. Electric infrared systems are also consisting of a material handling system and a ventilation system. IR systems have capability to process (dry or cure) a product

Improve the performance of Existing Electric Infrared Systems

Technology, market dynamic, need of processing, time to market and demand of end products are changing at very rapid rate across all verticals for business. Name a business it would see huge change in less than 2 – 5 years (for few its 1 year) this reduction in change cycle and evolving technological need to processing require you to be on the top with your processing requirements. But big question is that if you have installed a processing  heating/drying  unit today to improves its performance you cannot replace it frequently. We are trying to help you with some recommendations that may help you improving the performance of your existing infrared heating system, if not more but you can achieve 15% to 30% improvement: •  Add Reflectors:  IR work on principle of reflection, more the IR rays will collide with product/substrate under processing faster will be the process. Adding additional reflectors to sides and/or top and /or bottom of your IR oven will help you achieving more IR

IR and MW heating Systems increases productivity of flameproof and water-repellent fabric

A textile is a flexible material, consisting of a network of natural or artificial fibres made by spinning raw fibres from plants, animals and other minerals. Textile more commonly is known as ‘ Fabric ’ or ‘ Cloth ’ in textile assembly trades, though there are subtle differences in these terms in specialized usage. The creation of textiles involves several processes than one might think. The production of fibres are spun into yarns, and then used to create fabrics into many other sub-processes. Textiles vary from, cotton, flax, jute, wool, silk, ramie, leather or synthetic materials like nylon, polyester, rayon etc. In India, traditionally, after agriculture textile production is the only industry that has generated huge employment for both skilled and unskilled labour. India is the second largest producer of fibre in the world and the major fibre produced is cotton which is about 60% of the whole textile production. Heat is an integral part of many textile processes. There are

Strong Casting and Exquisite Molding, by Modern Foundry Technologies

A foundry is an industrial facility that produces metal castings. Metals are cast into shapes by liquefying them into a fluid, pouring the metal into a mold, and removing or emptying the form material after the metal has solidified as it cools. The most widely recognized metals prepared are aluminum and solid metal. However, other metals, for example, bronze, metal, steel, magnesium, and zinc, are likewise used to create castings in foundries. Foundry  processes can be divided into two types – ferrous foundries and non-ferrous foundries i.e. the type of metal they use for casting of the moulds. Ferrous and Non-ferrous metals are distinguished by the presence of iron in the metal. Ferrous metals are defined as those metals that contain iron. Non-ferrous metals do not. Iron and its types like cast irons, grey iron, ductile iron, steel and other iron alloys are the examples of ferrous metals. Whereas Non-ferrous metals include every metal and alloy that does not contain iron, a shor

Microwave Radiation’s Role in Glass Processing Industry

Glass is a solid-like and transparent material that is used in numerous applications in our daily lives. It is a sustainable, fully recyclable material which provides great environmental benefits such as contributing to mitigating climate change and saving precious natural resources. It is also highly appreciated in many applications for its inert nature and its contributions to safeguarding people’s health ad well being. It is an unlimited material whose number of applications is constantly evolving and which is more and more used in combination with other material for high-tech applications. Glass processing is energy intensive, therefore the possibility to reduce energy consumption by selective energy intake into portions of glass using microwave heating is investigated. Glass products like bottles, jars, windows, mirrors, tableware, automobile parts etc. are some of the most commonly produced. Microwave heating is a process whereby microwave rays produced by magnetrons are di

Organic Food and its increasing consumer demand

Organic Food Processing  is where organic raw materials are processed into food and drink. The organics standard of food processing is to protect the food constituents so that organic ingredients are used, and encourage the avoidance of unnecessary chemical or physical. Organic labeling offers consumers, the confidence that the eatables they consume are produced under controlled organic standards. Organic food should be of high nutritional and high natural quality. With the growing awareness even the governments of various countries have setup a separate body to monitor the whole Organic Processing System, in India that being National Program for Organic Production (NPOP). India is one of the upcoming leading processors in this sector. Some private standards demand that organic food should fulfill the criteria of wholesome nutrition, where processing methods must be seen as relevant tools. Most processing methods have more or less strong influences on product properties. Heat tre