Progress in microwave pyrolysis conversion of agricultural waste to value-added biofuels: a batch to continuous approach

S Ge, PNY Yek, YW Cheng, C Xia, WAW Mahari… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microwave pyrolysis (MP) has emerged as a promising technique to valorize agricultural
wastes (AW) into biofuels, comprising biochar, bio-oil, and syngas. To fill the research gap …

Microwave heating processing as alternative of pretreatment in second-generation biorefinery: An overview

A Aguilar-Reynosa, A Romaní… - Energy Conversion and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The development of a feasible biorefinery is in need of alternative technologies to improve
lignocellulosic biomass conversion by the suitable use of energy. Microwave heating …

Emerging food processing technologies and factors impacting their industrial adoption

A Priyadarshini, G Rajauria, CP O'Donnell… - Critical reviews in food …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Innovative food processing technologies have been widely investigated in food processing
research in recent years. These technologies offer key advantages for advancing the …

A fully coupled electromagnetic, heat transfer and multiphase porous media model for microwave heating of coal

H Li, S Shi, B Lin, J Lu, Y Lu, Q Ye, Z Wang… - Fuel Processing …, 2019 - Elsevier
Microwave heating has gained widespread popularity in coal processing. Numerical
simulation is a promising tool to visualize and quantize microwave-coal interactions …

Drying kinetics of coal under microwave irradiation based on a coupled electromagnetic, heat transfer and multiphase porous media model

H Li, C Zheng, J Lu, L Tian, Y Lu, Q Ye, W Luo, X Zhu - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
Microwave has gained widespread popularity in coal drying. In the current electromagnetic
models, coal is always assumed as a solid continuum. The thermodynamic evolution and …

Multiphysics modeling of microwave heating of solid samples in rotary lifting motion in a rectangular multi-mode cavity

J Ye, Y Xia, Q Yi, H Zhu, Y Yang, K Huang… - Innovative Food Science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Making samples moving during microwave heating is popular way to improve the heating
uniformity. However, the common methods, eg using turntable and conveyor belt, can only …

Numerical analysis of heat and mass transfer in kiwifruit slices during combined radio frequency and vacuum drying

L Hou, X Zhou, S Wang - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2020 - Elsevier
Kiwifruit slices subjected to combined radio frequency (RF) and vacuum drying undergo a
complicated process, including electromagnetic heating, heat and mass transfer along with …

Microwave heating properties of steel slag asphalt mixture using a coupled electromagnetic and heat transfer model

B Lou, A Sha, DM Barbieri, Z Liu, F Zhang - Construction and Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
Microwave heating technique is a promising asphalt pavement maintenance method with
minimal external intervention. In order to employ this technology in real engineering …

[HTML][HTML] Finite element method for freezing and thawing industrial food processes

T Fadiji, SHM Ashtiani, DI Onwude, Z Li, UL Opara - Foods, 2021 - mdpi.com
Freezing is a well-established preservation method used to maintain the freshness of
perishable food products during storage, transportation and retail distribution; however, food …

Modelling of moving drying process and analysis of drying characteristics for germinated brown rice under continuous microwave drying

L Shen, Y Zhu, C Liu, L Wang, H Liu… - Biosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•The continuous microwave drying of germinated brown rice (GBR) was
investigated.•The simulation of microwave drying process for moving GBR materials was …