TECHNICAL PROGRAM

AMPERE 2011 Monday 5th September 2011 Short Course I: Basic of microwave and RF heating Short Course II: EMC and safety Short Course III: Microwaves for Plasma applications

Invited lectures Tuesday 6th September 2011 9:15 Mr. Robert Schiffmann The effects of high level microwave exposure 13:40 Dr. René De-Seze 14:20 Prof. Koen Van Reusel Induction technology as an important branch in the “Electromagnetic Processing of Materials” field of study Wednesday 7th September 2011 8:00 Dr. Patrick PONS Wireless passive autonomous sensors with electromagnetic transduction 10:15 Dr. Sebastien VAUCHER "Enlightening the Invisible": Materials Response to High Power Microwave Irradiation Revealed by Synchrotron Methods 10:55 Dr. Olivier MAURICE The tensorial analysis of networks applied to multiphysic problems of real systems

Tuesday 6th September 2011 10:10-11:30 Parallel sessions A1/B1/C1/P1 A1: Microwave and RF material interaction NECK FORMATION BETWEEN AMPORPHOUS SILICA PARTICLES AT MICROWAVE HEATING S.V. Egorov, A.G. Eremeev, A.A. Sorokin, Yu.V. Bykov Institute of Applied Physics Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia INVESTIGATION OF CRYSTAL STRUCTURE FORMATION OF MAGNETITE UNDER MICROWAVE HEATING ON H-FIELD Sadatsugu Takayama1, Jun Fukushima1, Motoyasu Sato1, Midori Saito2, Nobuyuki Nishi2 1National Institute for Fusion Science, 322-6 Orochi-cho, Toki-shi, Gifu, 509-5292, Japan 2Institute for Molecular Science, 38 Nishigo-Naka, Myodaiji,Okazaki-shi, Aichi, 444-8585, Japan SIMULTANEOUS TEMPERATURE AND VECTORIAL ELECTRIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS WITH AN ELECTRO-OPTIC PROBE FOR BIOELECTROMAGNETIC INVESTIGATIONS Sophie Kohler1, Nicolas Ticaud1, Delia Arnaud-Cormos1, Philippe Leveque1, Pierre Jarrige2 , Lionel Duvillaret2 1XLIM Research Institute, UMR CNRS 6172 University of Limoges, 87060 Limoges, France 2Kapteos SAS, rue Lac de la Thuile, 73376 Le Bourget-du-Lac Cedex, France WHICH PROPERTIES OF TRANSITION METAL OXIDES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MICROWAVE HEATING? Benjamin Jäger,*a Thomas Krech,a Peter Scholz,a Rudolf Emmerich,b Bernd Ondruschkaa a Friedrich-Schiller University: Institute for Technical Chemistry and Environmental Chemistry, Jena, Germany b Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology, Pfinztal, Germany B1: Industrial applications MICROWAVE SINTERING OF NANOMETRIC CERAMIC POWDERS IN A SINGLE MODE RESONANT CAVITY A. Guyon, S. Charmond, D. Bouvard, C.P. Carry, J.M. Chaix Laboratoire SIMAP, Grenoble INP / CNRS / UJF, Saint Martin d’Hères, France MICROWAVE ENERGY FOR EXPANDING PERLITE ORE Juan A. Aguilar-Garib, Víctor García-Onofre, Ubaldo Ortiz, Zarel Valdez-Nava Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, NL Mexico Nickel and Vanadium removal from crude oil under microwave irradiation SHANG Hui1, LI Jun2 1State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Changping District, Beijing, P. R. China, 102249 2PetroChina Planning & Engineering Instiute, Haidian District, Beijing, P. R. China, 100083 PERLITE EXPANSION IN A FLUIDIZED BED USING MICROWAVE ENERGY Felipe L. Peñaranda-Foix1, Pedro J. Plaza-Gonzalez1, B. García-Baños2 and Jose M. Catalá-Civera1 1 Instituto ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain 2 Asociación ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain C1: Medical applications / Safety regulations and EMC

HYBRID MICROWAVE SINTERING OF TITANIUM BIOMEDICAL IMPLANTS Jef Vleugels1, Joop van Deursen1, Olivier van Roey1, Pieter Luypaert2 1K.U.Leuven: Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, Leuven, Belgium 2Advanced Microwave Energy Systems bvba: Nevele, Belgium HIGH FREQUENCY RF RESONANT POWER INVERTER FOR INDUCTION HEATING IN AN ADIABATIC SPECIFIC ABSORPTION RATE MEASUREMENT SETUP 1A. Mediano1, E. Natividad2, C.J. Borrell2, I. Andreu2, M. Castro2 2GEPM, Aragon Institute for Engineering Research (I3A), University of Zaragoza, Spain Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Aragón, CSIC-University of Zaragoza, Spain ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION AND THE HUMAN BODY, AN UPDATE Walter Van Loock Intec, University of Ghent, Belgium P1: Chemistry & biochemistry/ Combined electroheat applications for materials processing THRESHOLD EFFECTS OF MICROWAVE IRRADIATION ON AQUEOUS NACL SOLUTION Guo-Zhu Jia College of Physics and Electronics Engineering,Sichuan Normal University,Chengdu,China College of Electronics and Information Engineering,Sichuan University,Chengdu,China MICROWAVES ASSISTED HYDROTHERMAL SYNTHESIS OF SUB-MICROMETRIC BiFeO3 PARTICLES Chiara Ponzoni1,2, Roberto Rosa1, Paolo Veronesi1, Cristina Leonelli1, Maria Teresa Buscaglia3, Vincenzo Buscaglia2, Elisabetta Finocchio3, Paolo Nanni2,3 1 Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy; 2 Department of Process and Chemical Engineering, University of Genoa, I-16129 Genoa, Italy; 3 Institute for Energetics and Interphases, National Research Council, Via De Marini 6, I-16149 Genoa, Italy MICROWAVE COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF LACO1-XFEXO3 (0≤X≤1) NANOPOWDERS Marina Souza Rossitti, Ruth H. G. A. Kiminami Materials Engineering Department, Federal University of São Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil EFFECT OF MICROWAVE IRRADIATION ON THE SELECTIVE DERIVATIZATION OF (HYDROXYALKYL)PHENOLS Toshifumi Miyazawa, Masato Yamamoto, Ryoko Omichi and Hiroshi Danjo Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Konan University, Kobe, Japan ON THE DESIGN AND CHARACTERISATION OF A MICROWAVE APPLICATOR: FROM THEORY TO REALIZATION USING EM AND THERMAL SOFTWARE Irena Calafell Sairem Ibérica, Castellbisbal, Spain Josep M. Darné SairemIbérica, Castellbisbal, Spain MEASUREMENT OF EVAPORATION RATES OF DIFFERENT KIND OF AQUEOUS SOLUTIONS UNDER MICROWAVE IRRADIATION S. Ekim*, T. Ünak, G. Sarıcan, Ç. Çetin Ege University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry, Division of Nuclear Chemistry, Bornova, Izmir 35100, Turkey SOLVENT EFFECT FOR MICROWAVE-ASSITTED CLAISEN REARRANGEMENT OF ALLYLOXYBENZENES Yutaka OKADA Department of Applied Chemistry,Ritsumeikan University, 1-1-1 Nojihigashi, Kusatsu-shi, 525-8577 Japan MICROWAVE-MEDIATED PREPARATION OF BIOINORGANIC HYBRID MATERIALS FOR COSMETIC AND PHARMACEUTICAL APPLICATIONS Villa C., Priarone G. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Genoa, Italy

Rosa R., Leonelli C. Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Continuous flow reactor for metallic nanoparticle microwave assited synthesis Ioan Călinescu1, Mariana Pătraşcu2 1 "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, Faculty of Applied Chemistry and Material Science, Bucharest, Romania ; 2 S.C. CHEMSPEED Ltd AQUEOUS MICROWAVE ASSISTED SYNTHESIS OF QUINOLINE DERIVATIVES STARTING FROM GLYCEROL AS BIOMASS STARTING MATERIAL N. Thiebault, H. Saggadi, D. Luart, C. Len Transformations Intégrées de la Matière Renouvelable : UTC-ESCOM, Compiègne, France I. Polaert, L. Estel Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques : INSA Rouen, Rouen, France STUDY OF THE PARASITIC INDUCTANCE AND RESISTANCE IN CONTINUOUS WIRE INDUCTION HEATING SYSTEMS ABOVE CURIE TEMPERATURE Guillermo Martín-Segura , Coia Ferrater-Simón, Daniel Montesinos-Miracle Centre d'Innovació Tecnològica en Convertidors Estàtics i Accionaments (CITCEA-UPC), Departament d'Enginyeria Elèctrica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Av. Diagonal, 647, Pl. 2. 08028 Barcelona, Spain Joaquim López-Mestre, Miquel Teixidó-Casas Control Inteligent de l'Energia, SCCL (CINERGIA, SCCL), C. Llull 51-55, 1er 2a 08005, Barcelona, Spain COMPARISON ON SOLID STATE DECARBURIZATION OF HIGH-CARBON FERROMANGANESE BETWEEN MICROWAVE HEATING AND CONVENTIONAL HEATING GUO Li-na，CHEN Jin, SHI Wen-li, ZHAO Jing College of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, China LIU Ke Lian-zhi Technology Corporation of Xiangtan City, Xiangtan, China LIU Jin-ying No.12 Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation, Beijing, China 15:00-16:20 Parallel sessions A2/B2/C2/P2 A2: Modelling COMPUTATIONAL STUDY OF THERMAL RUNAWAY IN MICROWAVE PROCESSING OF ZIRCONIA Vadim V. Yakovlev1, Shawn M. Allan2, Morgana L. Fall2, and Holly S. Shulman2 1Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA 2Ceralink, Inc., Troy, NY, USA MICROWAVE HEATING MODELLING OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS AT THE GRAIN LEVEL Serge Lefeuvre1, Olga Gomonova2, Junwu Tao3 1Eurl Creawave, Toulouse, France 2Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 3ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, France MODELLING OF A COMBINED MICROWAVE – INFRA-RED BAKING PROCESS OF BREAD Birgitta Wäppling Raaholt SIK – the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology, Process and Technology Development, Box 5401, SE-402 29 Göteborg, Sweden APPLICABILITY STUDY OF CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY MODELS FOR EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY AND PERMEABILITY OF METAL POWDERS Erin Kiley1, Kotaro Ishizaki2, Sébastien Vaucher2, Vadim Yakovlev1 1Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA 2Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA), Thun, Switzerland

B2: Induction heating applications C2: Chemistry & biochemistry THEORY OF MICROWAVE NON-THERMAL EFFECT Sato MOTOYASU National Institute for Fusion Science, TOKI, GIFU, Japan MICROWAVE IRRADIATED THERMAL CRACKING REACTOR José T. Senise, Luiz A. Jermolovicius, Edmilson R. de Castro, Renata B. do Nascimento, Marina M. Cinquini Centro Universitário do Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, São Caetano do Sul, SP, Brazil THE EFFECT OF MICROWAVE HEATING ON THE ACTIVATION ENERGY AND REACTION RATE OF CHEMICAL REACTION OF CONDENSED PHASE Zheng CHENG Guangzhou vocational college of Technology & Business, GUANGZHOU, China PYROLYSIS OF HEAVY HYDROCARBONS UNDER MICROWAVE HEATING OF CATALYSTS AND ADSORBENTS V. Bolotov1, E. Udalov1, Yu. Tanashev1, V. Parmon1, Yu. Chernousov2 Boreskov Institute of Catalysis SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia P2: Dielectric property measurement and non-destructive testing (microwave sensors)/ Plasma processing/ MICROWAVE SENSOR FOR CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF ADHESIVES CURING B. García-Baños1, Felipe L. Peñaranda-Foix2, Pedro J. Plaza-Gonzalez2 and Antoni J. Canós 2 1 Asociación ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain 2 Instituto ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain WIDEBAND RF CHARACTERISATION OF A MICRO-DISCHARGE PLASMA PARAMETERS Francisco Pizarro, Romain Pascaud Université de Toulouse : ISAE, DEOS, Toulouse France Olivier Pascal, Thierry Callegari, Laurent Liard Université de Toulouse : UPS, INPT, LAPLACE, Toulouse France, CNRS : LAPLACE, Toulouse, France RECONFIGURABLE LIQUID ANTENNA FOR WIRELESS TEMPERATURE SENSING S. Bouaziz 1,2 , A. Traille 3, S. Pinon 1,2, P. Pons 1,2, H. Aubert 1,2, A. Boukabache 1,2, M.M. Tentzeris 3 1 CNRS ; LAAS ; 7 avenue du colonel Roche, F-31077 Toulouse, France 2 Université de Toulouse ; UPS, INSA, INP, ISAE ; UT1, UTM, LAAS ; F-31077 Toulouse, France School of ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A Modelling Of Micro Plasma Discharges, Controlling Of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation In Printed Microwaves Circuits ALMUSTAFA Mohamad1, DAVID Jacque1, VUONG Thân-Hôa 1 1: Université de Toulouse; INPT, UPS; LAPLACE; ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PLASMA EXCITATION AND PROPAGATION E. Gidalevich, and R. L. Boxman Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel APPLICATION OF CORONA DISCHARGES IN WATER: EFFECTS ON BACTERIA Vanessa Joubert CERPEM, Laval, France Vincent Blanckaert MMS (EA-2160), IUT de Laval - Université du Maine, Laval, France Cyril Cheype CERPEM, Laval, France Jean Bonnet, Denis Packan

ONERA, Palaiseau, France Justin Teissié CNRS UMR5089, IPBS, Toulouse, France Jean-Pierre Garnier CERPEM, Laval, France COMPACT DIRECTIONAL COUPLER FOR POWER MICROWAVE USE Junwu Tao ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France Serge Lefeuvre EURL CREAWAVE, 16 allèe Chantecaille, 31670 Labège, France Tan Hoa Vuong, Jacques David ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France MAGNETRON POWER SUPPLY CONFIGURATIONS: A REVIEW OF THE STATE OF THE ART José Villarejo, Esther de Jódar, Jacinto Jiménez, Miguel Moreno Depto. Tecnología Electrónica, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain Juan Monzó Cabrera Depto. Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain 16:35-17:55 Parallel sessions A3/B3/C3/P3 A3: Dielectric property measurement and non-destructive testing EFFECT OF ALCALINE CATIONS IN ZEOLITES ON THEIR DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES B. Legras1, I. Polaert1, L. Estel1, M. Thomas2 1Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques, LSPC, INSA de Rouen, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France 2IFP Energies nouvelles- Lyon, Direction catalyse et séparation, Solaize, France CONTINUOUS ON-LINE MONITORING OF A CONTROLLED RING OPENING POLYMERISATION REACTION VIA DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY Georgios Dimitrakisa, Mohd J. Kamaruddina, Jaouad El Harfia,b, Nam T. Nguyenb, Samuel W. Kingmana, Edward Lestera, John P. Robinsona and Derek J. Irvinea a National Centre of Industrial Microwave processing, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering bSchool of Chemistry, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK MEASUREMENT AND PREDICTION OF DIELECTRIC COEFFICIENT BASE ON ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK Ming Luo, Kama Huang, Wenyan Tian College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China MEASUREMENT AND MODELLING OF INTRINSIC DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF IONIC CRYSTALS AT MICROWAVE FREQUENCIES Guido Link Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany B3: Induction heating applications C3: Combined electroheat applications for materials processing SEPARATION OF MULITPHASE MATERIALS USING RAPID MICROWAVE HEATING Nicholas Lippiatt, Florent Bourgeois University of Toulouse, Laboratoire de Génie Chimique, Toulouse, France

HYBRID HEATING PROCESS WITH LINEAR POLARIZED MICROWAVES EMPLOYED TO NANOPOROUS GLASSES U. Bauerschaefer1, L. Ledig1, S. Gai1, D. Enke2, J.Kullmann2, T.Hahn3, A. Bochmann4 1GMBU e.V., Erich-Neuss-Weg 5, D-06120 Halle, Germany 2Institute of Chemical Technology, University Leipzig, Linnèstraße 3, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany 3Institute of Chemistry, University of Halle, von Danckelmann-Platz 4, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany 4IPHT e.V., Albert-Einstein-Strasse 9, D-07745 Jena, Germany A NEW COMBINED TECHNOLOGY FOR STEVIA EXTRACTION Josep M. Darné1, Irena Calafell2 1Sairem Ibérica, Castellbisbal, Spain 2SairemIbérica, Castellbisbal, Spain ENERGY EFFICIENT AIR HEATING METHOD BASED ON THE MICROWAVE THERMAL EFFECT Daniela IORDACHE POLITEHNICA University of Bucharest; Energy Research and Modernising Institute – ICEMENERG, Bucharest, Romania ANALYTICAL, NUMERICAL, AND EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH FOR THE DESIGN OF A PULSED INDUCTION THRUSTER S. Mirhoseini*, K. Van Reusel** *Department of Electrical Engineering, K.U.Leuven – ESAT-ELECTA **Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium P3: Modelling FVTD MODELLING OF A LOCALIZED MICROWAVE PLASMA DISCHARGE IN MICROSTRIP WAVE GUIDE A. Hamiaz, O. Pascal, J. R. Poirier Université de Toulouse, UPS, LAPLACE, CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France X. Ferrières, R. Klein, ONERA-DEMR, 2 avenue Edouard Belin, 31055 Toulouse cedex 5, France MICROWAVE HEATING IN A DOMESTIC OVEN EQUIPPED WITH A TURTABLE Serge Lefeuvre EURL CREAWAVE, 16 allèe Chantecaille, 31670 Labège, France Tan-Hoa Vuong ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France MUTUAL INFLUENCE BETWEEN CAVITY AND FILTER ON THE DESIGN OF INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE OVENS Francisco J. Clemente-Fernández, Juan Monzó-Cabrera, Juan L. Pedreño-Molina, Antonio J. Lozano-Guerrero, Miguel A. García-Fernández, and Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Murcia, 30202, Spain. HIGH PRECISION METHOD TO SOLVE THE MAXWELL EQUATION IN THE TIME DOMAIN ADAPTED TO STRUCTURED MESHES. T. Volpert ONERA, Toulouse, France G. Cohen, INRIA, Le Chesnay, France X. Ferrières ONERA, Toulouse, France B. Pecqueux CEA, Gramat, France MODELIZATION OF A RESONANT CAVITY PLASMA ELECTRON SOURCE O. Salimia, N. Raveu, O. Pigaglio

Université de Toulouse, INPT, LAPLACE, ENSEEIHT, CNRS, 2 rue Charles Camichel, 31071 Toulouse cedex L. Liard, O. Pascal Université de Toulouse, UPS, LAPLACE, CNRS, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France A TIME DOMAIN HYBRID APPROACH TO STUDY PARTS CONNECTED BY TRANSMISSION LINE N. Muot and C. Girard AxesSim, Strasbourg France X. Ferrieres and E. Bachelier ONERA/DEMR, Toulouse, France ANALYSIS OF QR-COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR IMPROVING ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING COMPUTATION BY PERIODIC ROUGH SURFACES Simon Tournier, Julien Girardin, Jean-René Poirier LAboratoire PLAsma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE/GRE), Toulouse, France Pierre Borderies ONERA (Electromagnetism and Radar Department), Toulouse, France SIC CHARACTERIZATION USING WCIP A. Ismail Alhzzoury1,2, N. Raveu1,2, G. Prigent1,2, O. Pigaglio1,2, H. Baudrand1,2, K. Al-Abdullah3 1Université de Toulouse, INPT ,LAPLACE, ENSEEIHT, 2 rue Charles Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France 2CNRS ,LAPLACE, F-31071 Toulouse, France 3 University of Aleppo-Syria; Faculty of Electronic and Electrical Engineering; Director of laboratory LMRS SIC ANGULAR VARIATION IN WCIP FORMULATION: A NEW MODEL FOR SIW CIRCUITS A. Ismail Alhzzoury1,2, N. Raveu1,2, H. Baudrand1,2, K. Al-Abdullah3 1Université de Toulouse, INPT ,LAPLACE, ENSEEIHT, 2 rue Charles Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France 2CNRS ,LAPLACE, F-31071 Toulouse, France 3 University of Aleppo-Syria; Faculty of Electronic and Electrical Engineering; Director of laboratory LMRS A MACROSCOPIC ITERATIVE ROUTINE FOR MODELING ELECTROMAGNETIC, THERMAL, AND MECHANICAL PHENOMENA IN MICROWAVE SINTERING Sergey Bogachev1, Didier Bouvard1, Erin Kiley2, and Vadim Yakovlev2 1 Laboratoire SIMaP, Grenoble INP / CNRS / UJF, Saint Martin d’Hères, France 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA Wednesday 7th September 2011 8:40-10:00: Parallel sessions A4/B4/C4/P4 A4: Dielectric property measurement and non-destructive testing COAXIAL 2.45-GHZ HIGH-POWER IMPEDANCE MATCHING DEVICE Vladimir Bilik, Filip Krajcovic Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava, Slovak Republic PLASMA CHARACTERISATION FOR MICROWAVES FUNCTION DESIGN Olivier Chruszez1,2, Gaëtan Prigent1,2, Nathalie Raveu1,2, Olivier Pigaglio1,2, Thierry Callegari1,2 1 Université de Toulouse ; INPT, UPS ; LAPLACE (Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d’Energie) ; ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. 2 CNRS ; LAPLACE ; F-31071 Toulouse, France. PORTABLE SYSTEM FOR DIELECTRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF MATERIALS AT MICROWAVE REQUENCIES José M. Catalá Civera1, Jose D. Gutiérrez Cano1, Felipe L. Peñaranda-Foix1, B. García-Baños2 1 Instituto ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain 2 Asociación ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGY FOR DETECTING TERMITES AND DECAY IN TIMBER

Graham Brodie1, Berhan Ahmed1 Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia B4: Industrial applications PEST CONTROL OF WHEAT FLOUR AND RICE USING RADIOFREQUENCY DIELECTRIC HEATING S. Mirhoseini*, K. Van Reusel** *Department of Electrical Engineering, K.U.Leuven – ESAT-ELECTA **Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium HIGH POWER MICROWAVE CONVEYORIZED SYSTEM FOR TEA PROCESSING K. P. Ray, J. D. Abhyankar, S. S. Choudhary and V. S. Sarode SAMEER, IIT Campus, Powai, Mumbai- 400076, INDIA CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE HEATING OF PUMPABLE FOODS: EXAMPLES OF TWO POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS Birgitta Wäppling-Raaholt SIK- the Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology, Process and Technology Development, Box 5401, SE-402 29 Göteborg, Sweden APPLICATION OF RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING AS A POST-DRYING STEP IN POTATO CHIP MANUFACTURING T. Koray Palazoğlu, Esra Koklamaz Department of Food Engineering, University of Mersin, Mersin, Turkey C4: RF and microwave assistance on Bio energy production INFLUENCE OF ABSORBED ENERGY OF MICROWAVE TREATMENT ON BIOGAS PRODUCTION FROM WASTEWATER SLUDGE Katalin Sólyom, Rafael B. Mato, Sara I. Pérez-Elvira, María J. Cocero Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid 47011, Spain THE APPILCATION OF MICOWAVES FOR THE EHNACEMENT OF BIOGAS PRODUCTION Gary BOND University of Central Lancashire, PRESTON, United Kingdom PROCESSING IMPROVEMENT OF ETHANOL FROM SUGARCANE BY USING MICROWAVE ENERGY Antonio Marsaioli Junior1; Alfredo de A. Vitali1; Michele N. Berteli1; Maria I. Berto1; Glauciane R.S.D. da Silva1, Daniel I.P. Atala2 1Post Harvest and Engineering Group, Food Technology Institute (ITAL), Campinas, SP, Brazil 2Sugarcane Technology Center(CTC), Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. LOW TEMPERATURE MICROWAVE IRRADIATION AS AN ACTIVATOR OF BIOMASS PYROLYSIS Mark J. Gronnow,a Vitaly L. Budarin,a Simon Breeden,a Duncan J Macquarrie,a James H. Clark.a aGreen Chemistry Centre, Chemistry Department, University of York, Heslington, York, United Kingdom P4: Microwave and RF material interaction/ Waste treatment & remediation DESIGN OF AN EXPERIMENTAL SET-UP FOR MICROWAVE NON-THERMAL EFFECTS Wenyan Tian, Kama Huang, Xiaoqing Yang

College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China Microwave sintering of Yttria-stabilized Zirconia at 2.45 GHz. Improvement of Yttria-stabilized Zirconia by microwave sintering Microwave sintering zirconia with high properties A. Borrell1, L. García-Riaño2, M.D. Salvador2, F. L. Penaranda-Foix3, P. J. Plaza- Gonzalez3 1Centro de Investigación en Nanomateriales y Nanotecnología (CINN) (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas - Universidad de Oviedo - Principado de Asturias), Parque Tecnológico de Asturias, 33428 Llanera (Asturias), Spain 2Instituto de Tecnología de Materiales (ITM), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain 3Instituto de Aplicaciones de las Tecnologías de la Información y de las Comunicaciones Avanzadas (ITACA), Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera, s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain RF CURING OF AERONAUTICAL PREPREGS N.Azurmendi, B.Canflanca, I. Caro, TECNALIA, Paseo Mikeletegi, 2 - Parque Tecnológico E-20009 San Sebastián, Spain R. Ávila AIRBUS-España, Getafe, Spain IN-SITU SYNCHROTRON X-RAY DIFFRACTION OBSERVATION OF CARBOTHERMAL REDUCTION OF IRON ORES Sebastien Vaucher, Kotaro Ishizaki, Manuela Stir, Radu Nicula Advanced Material Processing Laboratory, Empa , Thun, Switzerland Jose-Manuel Catala Civera Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Camino Vera s/n E-46022 Valencia, Spain Fabia Gozzo MS-Beamline, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Instiuts, Villigen, Switzerland MICROWAVE HOTSPOT FORMATION AND NEW IMPLEMENTATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF MICROWAVE-DRILL-LIKE DEVICES Eli Jerby*, Yehuda Meir, and Alon Salzberg Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 69978, ISRAEL ACTIVE CONTROL OF ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP - WAVEGUIDES PERIODICALLY LOADED WITH METALLIC RODS AND PLASMA DISCHARGES J. Lo, J. Sokoloff, Th. Callegari Université de Toulouse; UPS; INPT; CNRS; LAPLACE (Laboratoire Plasma et Conversion d'Energie) ;118 route de Narbonne, F-31062 Toulouse cedex 9, France L.V. Simonchik, M.S. Usachonak Stepanov Institute of Physics, NAS of Belarus ; prosp. Nezavisimostsi 68, 220072 Minsk, Belarus Microwave-assisted synthesis of TiCN by carbothermal reduction Rodolfo Foster Klein Gunnewiek Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Materials Engineering, São Carlos, Brazil Pollyane Márcia de Souto Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Materials Engineering, São Carlos, Brazil Ruth H. G. A. Kiminami Federal University of São Carlos, Department of Materials Engineering, São Carlos, Brazil REDUCTION ENHANCEMENT OF COPPER OXIDE DURING MICROWAVE HEATING Jun Fukushima Dept. of Technology, Nagoya University, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, Japan Keiichiro Kashimura, Sadatsugu Takayama, Motoyasu Sato National Institute of Fusion Science, Toki-shi, Gifu, Japan ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE HEATING ON CHEMICAL REACTION BY HUANG'S METHOD Yang Xiao-qing , Wu Li and Huang Ka-ma College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China CONTACTLESS TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT METHOD FOR LIQUID OR VISCOUS PRODUCT UNDER MICROWAVE HEATING Tân-Hoa VUONG*, Jacques DAVID*, Serge LEFEUVRE**, Jun-Wu TAO*, Fethi CHOUBANI*** * ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France ** EURL CREAWAVE, 16 allèe Chantecaille, 31670 Labège, France *** SUP’COM Tunis, Cité Technologique des Communications, Rte de Raoued Km 3.5, 2083, Ariana Tunisie

11:35-12:55 Parallel sessions A5/B5/C5/P5 A5: Microwave and RF material interaction ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE PROPAGATION CHARACTERISTICS IN CHEMICAL REACTION Huang Ka-ma, Zhu Guang-yu and Yang Xiao-qing College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China UTILISATION OF MICROWAVE HEATED FLUIDIZED BED REACTOR FOR DE-POLYMERISATION OF FLUORINATED POLYMERS A. Schmidt-Rodenkirchen1, T. Gerdes, M. Willert-Porada2 1InVerTec, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany 2Chair of Materials Processing, University of Bayreuth, D-95447 Bayreuth, Germany DIELECTRIC HEATING BY MICROWAVES FOR THERMAL POWER SUPPLY IN HETEREOGENEOUS CATALYSIS S. Gai1, U. Bauerschaefer1, L. Ledig1, D. Enke2, T.Hahn3 1GMBU e.V., Erich-Neuss-Weg 5, D-06120 Halle , Germany 2Institute of Chemical Technology, University Leipzig, Linnèstraße 3, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany 3Institute of Chemistry, University of Halle, von Danckelmann-Platz 4, D-06120 Halle/Saale, Germany ENERGY TRANSFER IN MICROWAVE ASSISTED COMBUSTION SYNTHESIS OF INORGANIC COMPOUNDS Roberto Rosa, Paolo Veronesi, Cristina Leonelli, Anna Bonamartini Corradi Department of Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy B5: Modelling EVALUATION OF DIELECTRIC MODE-STIRRERS FOR ELECTRIC FIELD UNIFORMITY WITHIN MULTIMODE MICROWAVE OVENS Antonio J. Lozano-Guerrero, Juan Monzó-Cabrera, Francisco J. Clemente-Fernández, Juan L. Pedreño-Molina, and Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena Murcia, 30202, Spain CROSSCOUPLING REDUCTION IN MULTIFED MULTIMODE MICROWAVE-HEATING CAVITIES BY MEANS OF INNER DOUBLY CORRUGATED FILTERS Francisco J. Clemente-Fernández, Juan Monzó-Cabrera, Juan L. Pedreño-Molina, Antonio J. Lozano-Guerrero, and Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo Departamento de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Murcia, 30202, Spain. TUBULAR MICROWAVE HEATING OF MEAT AT 915 AND 433 MHZ Sven Isaksson SIK, Gothenburg, Sweden NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF MICROWAVE MULTIMODE OVEN WITH TWO LATERAL APERTURES A. Oktay1, B.A.Gözkaya1, A. Akman2 1Electronic Engineering Department, Uludag University,16059 Gorukle/Bursa, TURKEY 2Maltepe University Department of Electronic Engineering, 34857 Maltepe/İstanbul, TURKEY C5: Chemistry & biochemistry

MICROWAVE ASSISTED CONTINUOUS FLOW REACTORS Marilena Radoiu1, Bertrand Depagneux1, Eric Trescarte1, Bruno Marchiori2, Jean-Bernard Cazaux2 1SAIREM SAS, Neyron, France 2Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier, Montpellier, France CHARACTERIZATION OF SILICON CARBIDE NANOPARTICLES OBTAINED BY MICROWAVE PYROLYSIS, Juan AGUILAR-GARIB Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, San Nicolás de los Garza, NL Mexico Applications of Microwave-assisted Techniques in Biotechnology Ming Liu1, Wenxiang Hu2 1College of Life Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing,China 2Department of Chemistry, Institute of Physical Organic and Medicinal Chemistry, Capital Normal University, Beijing,China Investigation into the Mechanism of Microwave Induced Rate Enhancements in Chain Growth Polymerisation Nguyen Nama,b, Jaouad El Harfia,b, Kamaruddin Mohda, Ed Greenhalgha,b,Sam W. Kingmana, John P. Robinsona*and Derek J. Irvinea,b* a National Centre for Industrial Microwave Processing, Faculty of Engineering b School of Chemistry, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. P5: RF and microwave assistance on Bio energy production/ Medical applications/ Waste treatment & remediation/Industrial applications DRYING OF BIOGAS WITH ADSORBER REGENERATION BY RF HEATING Ulf Trommler, Peter Thiel, Markus Kraus, Frank Holzer, Frank-Dieter Kopinke and Ulf Roland* Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Chemical Engineering, Leipzig, Germany MICROWAVE ENHANCED LIPID EXTRACTION OF MICROALGAE Katalin Sólyom, Javier Pereda, Rafael B. Mato, María José Cocero Department of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Technology, University of Valladolid, Valladolid, Spain HYDRODESULFURIZATION OF A STRAIGHT RUN GAS OIL ASSISTED BY MICRO WAVES IN A FIXED BED REACTOR. Ferry Muriel, Leclerc Emmanuel, Geantet Christophe IRCELYON UMR 5256 CNRS Université Lyon 1, 2 Av A Einstein 69626 Villeurbanne Cedex. Rochas Jean François. F., Vuillot David Cetiat, domaine Scientifique de la Doua, Villeurbanne, FRANCE Nokerman Joelle., Lacroix Maxime Total Petrochemicals Research Feluy, Refining and Base Chemicals (RBC) department Syncrude, Reforming and Selective Hydrogenation (SRSH) division, FELUY,Belgique CONSIDERING TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT ELECTROMAGNETIC AND THERMAL PROPERTIES DURING THERMAL ABLATION SIMULATION Tilmann Wittig, Marli Strydom CST AG, Bad Nauheimer Strasse 19, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany APPLICATION OF MICROWAVES IN THERMAL TREATMENT OF SOLID MATERIALS CONTAMINATED BY PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS Krouzek Jiri, Masin Pavel, Hendrych Jiri, Kubal Martin Institute of Chemical Technology, Faculty of Environmental Technology, Prague, Czech Republic Sobek Jiri Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic MICROWAVE FURNACE FOR PYROLYSIS OF GOLDSMITH RESIDUES FINALYSED TO PRECIOUS METALS RECOVERY COMPLETED WITH TREATMENT FOR SMOKE EMISSION

Mauro Colucci Consultant, Foiano , Arezzo , Italy EFFECTS OF MILLIMETER-WAVE HEATING ON PHOTOLUMINESCENCE PROPERTIES OF EU-DOPED BETA-SIALON HIROTA Masayuki1 1 College of Industrial Technology, Amagasaki, Japan ZHOU You2, YOSHIZAWA Yu-ichi2, HIRAO Kiyoshi2 2 National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Nagoya, Japan INDUSTRIAL PROTOTYPE OF MICROWAVE HEATING SYSTEM FOR DRYING OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS M. Nisoa1,2, K. Meebunmak1,2, Pa. Kerdthongmee1,2 and Pr. Kerdtongmee1,2 1Plasma technology for agricultural applications research laboratory, School of Science, Walailak University,222 Taiburi, Tasala, Nakhon-si-thammarat, 80160 Thailand 2ThEP Center, CHE, 328 Si Ayutthaya Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand Investigation into the Depolymerisation of Poly(lactic Acid) Using Microwave Heating Andrew Jackson, Jaouad El Harfi, Sam W. Kingman, John P. Robinson* and Derek J. Irvine* National Centre for Industrial Microwave Processing, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, UK. 30 GHZ MICROWAVE CRYSTALLIZATION OF LITHIUM DISILICATE BASED GLASS Morsi M. Mahmoud Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. Advanced Technology and New Materials Research Institute (ATNMRI), MuCSAT, Alexandria, Egypt. Guido Link, Simone Miksch, Manfred Thumm Institute for Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany. 14:25 Industrial Application Session Introduction Dr Marilena Radoiu, Sairem, France Interest in the coordinated use of different technologies of energetic transfer for industrial applications Jean-Francois Luca, CETIAT, France Improvement of industrial SiOx barrier coatings on PET-bottles by microwave optimisation Sebastian Kytzia, KHS Plasmax GmbH, Germany Oleo-eco-extraction with a microwave batch reactor, Anne Rossignol Castera, Oleos, France Demands and potentials on Electromagnetic Processing for Sustainable Industrial Production Lambert Feher, Johnson Controls, Germany Industrial Application of Microwave Power in the Czech Center of Microwave Technology Milan Hajek, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic Efficient and Controlled Processing of Vermiculite at a Commercial Scale using Microwave Energy Sam Kingman, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Thursday 8th September 2011 8:15-9:35 Parallel sessions A6/B6/C6/P6 A6: Microwave and RF material interaction RF DRYING OF VERY LOW PERMEABILITY SANDSTONES Serge Lefeuvre1, Junwu Tao2, Olga Gomonova3, Aaron Ramis4, Richad Daya4, Jérôme Verdier5, Franck Rey-Bethbeder6 1EURL CREAWAVE, 16 allèe Chantecaille, 31670 Labège, France 2ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, 2, rue Camichel, 31071 Toulouse, France 3Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 4MIDIVAL,8 allée Latécoère, SICOLAN, 31570 Sainte Foy d'Aigrefeuille, France 5Laboratoire de Génie Civil, INSA, Univ.of Toulouse, 31004 Toulouse-Rangueuil, France 6TOTAL Département Electricité, Avenue Larribau, 64018 Pau Cedex, France IMPACT OF WATER ON RADIO-FREQUENCY HEATING OF ZEOLITE NAY Markus Kraus*, Ulf Trommler, Frank Holzer, Frank-Dieter Kopinke and Ulf Roland Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Chemical Engineering, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany “BURNING WATER” - WATER DISSOCIATION CAUSED BY THE INTERACTION OF A RADIO-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD WITH AN ELECTROLYTE Jens Schneider, Frank Holzer, Markus Kraus, Frank-Dieter Kopinke and Ulf Roland Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department of Environmental Engineering, Leipzig, Germany QUANTUM-MECHANICAL/CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS STUDY OF HEATING OF WATER BY GHZ-THZ WAVES Motohiko Tanaka1, Yasunari Zempo2 1College of Engineering, Chubu University, Kasugai 487-8501, Japan 2Department of Information Science, Hosei University, Koganei 184-8584, Japan B6: Modelling REVIEW OF WELL KNOWN APPLICATOR DESIGNS USING SIMULATION SOFTWARE Nguyen Tran Microwave Power Components SIMULATION OF MICROWAVE HEATING OF STATIC OBJECTS WITH LOW DIELECTRIC LOSSES Michal Soltysiak1, Malgorzata Celuch2 1QWED Sp. z o.o, Warsaw, Poland 2Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland ABRASION OF THIN LONG CANALS BY MEANS OF VISCOELASTIC MEDIUMS UNDER THE ACTION OF HIGH-FREQUENCY IMPULSES Olga Gomonova1, Sergey Senashov1, Serge Lefeuvre2, Junwu Tao3 1Siberian State Aerospace University named after academician M.F. Reshetnev, Krasnoyarsk, Russia 2Eurl Creawave, Toulouse, France 3ENSEEIHT-LAPLACE, INPT, Univ. of Toulouse, France THREE DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELLING OF GAS DISCHARGES AT ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AS A PRECURSOR TO ARCS IN RADIO FREQUENCY HEATING SYSTEMS L. Papageorgiou1, A. C. Metaxas2 and G. E. Georghiou3 1LAboratoire PLAsma et Conversion d'Energie (LAPLACE), Equipe GREPHE, Université Paul Sabatier, Bât 3R2,

118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse Cedex 9, France 2St John’s College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TP, U.K 3University of Cyprus, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 75 Kallipoleos Avenue, P.O. Box 20537 Nicosia, 1678, Cyprus C6: Waste treatment & remediation COMPETITIVE ADSORPTION UNDER MICROWAVE FOR CO2 CAPTURE OR COV TREATMENT B. Legras1, I. Polaert1, L. Estel1, M. Thomas2 1Laboratoire de Sécurité des Procédés Chimiques, LSPC, INSA de Rouen, Saint Etienne du Rouvray, France 2IFP Energies nouvelles- Lyon, Direction catalyse et séparation, Solaize, France FOOD WASTE TREATMENT ON SHIPS BY MICROWAVE DRYING B. Salski1, M. Celuch1, C. Pettersson2, U. Rudberg3, Z. Foltynowicz4, R. Johansson5 1QWED Sp. z o.o., ul. Krzywickiego 12/1, 02-078 Warsaw, Poland 2STENA METALL AB, Fiskhamnsgatan 8, P.O. Box 4088, SE-400 40, Goteborg, Sweden 3Gisip AB, Industrigatan 5, SE-541 57, Skovde, Sweden 4Poznan University of Economics, Al. Niepodleglosci 10, 61-875, Poznan, Poland 5ABC Liros AB, Galoppgatan 1, 20039, Malmo, Sweden REGENERATION OF ACTIVATED CARBON USING MICROWAVE HEATING C. de Blacquière-Clarkson, J. Robinson, S. Kingman The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom MICROWAVE PYROLYSIS OF PINE IN A CUSTOM BUILT APPLICATOR H. Al-Sayegh, J.P. Robinson, S.W. Kingman National Centre for Industrial Microwave Processing, Process and Environmental Research Division, Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom P6: Industrial applications Microwave induced desulfurization of petroleum oils Hui Shang , Zhichang Liu State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum (Beijing), Changping District, Beijing, P. R. China, 102249 METHOD OF SUSCEPTIBILITY MEASUREMENTS AND NOLINEAR EFFECTS OF AN ELECTRONIC SYSTEM L. Guibert1, P. Millot1, X. Ferrières1, E. Sicard2 Electromagnetic and Radar Department, ONERA, Toulouse, France1 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, INSA, Toulouse, France2 THERMODYNAMIC ASPECTS OF MICROWAVE HEATING FLUIDS AND SOLIDS Monika Willert-Porada Chair of Materials Processing, University of Bayreuth, , D95447 Bayreuth, Germany COMBINED MICROWAVE AND ROTATING-PULSED FLUIDIZED BED (RPFB) DRYING OF POLY-HYDROXYBUTYRATE (PHB) Gabriela Silveira da Rosa, Antonio Marsaioli Junior, Sandra Cristina dos Santos Rocha Dept. of Thermofluidynamics, School of Chemical Eng., State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, Brazil FIRING OF RECYCLED GLASS MOSAIC BY MICROWAVE HEATING I..Caro, N.Azurmendi, TECNALIA, Paseo Mikeletegi, 2 - Parque Tecnológico E-20009 San Sebastián, Spain A. Muro, S. Irastorza EZARRI S.A, Lazkao, Spain Clear etalon windows for domestic microwave ovens: analysis and measurement R.L. Boxman, E. Yaari, V. Dikhtyar, E. Gidalevich, V. Zhitomirsky Electrical Discharge and Plasma Laboratory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

and ClearWave Ltd., Herzliya, Israel COMPLEX IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT SYTEM AROUND 2.45 GHZ IN A WAVEGUIDE PORTABLE SYSTEM Pedro J. Plaza-Gonzalez, Antoni J. Canós, Jose M. Catalá-Civera, Jose D. Gutiérrez Cano Instituto ITACA. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. Camino de Vera s/n. 46022. Valencia, Spain COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN PROPANE AND MICROWAVE OVENS IN THE MARBLE INDUSTRY Miguel Mora Andreu, Francisco Javier Fernández Cortés I+D+I Department, Marble Technological Center, Cehegín, 30430, Spain Juan Monzó Cabrera Information and Communications Technology Department, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Murcia, 30202, Spain MICROWAVE OVENS APPLIED TO MARBLE INDUSTRY Miguel Mora Andreu, Francisco Javier Fernández Cortés I+D+I Department, Marble Technological Center, Cehegín, 30430, Spain Juan Monzó Cabrera Information and Communications Technology Department, Polytechnic University of Cartagena, Murcia, 30202, Spain DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW CURING TECHNOLOGY FOR POLYESTER RESIN BY MICROWAVE RADIATION Roig, I AIMPLAS, Technological Research Institute of Plastic: Composites Department, Paterna - Valencia, Spain Emmerich, R Fraunhofer ICT, Pfinztal, Germany BEHAVIORS OF ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLIES DUE TO MICROWAVE SUPPORTED CURING PROCESS OF CONFORMAL COATINGS AND CASTING COMPOUNDS Felix Bremerkamp, Mathias Nowottnick Institute of device systems and circuits, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 2, 18059 Rostock, Germany 9:50-10:50 Parallel sessions A7/B7/C7 A7: Plasma processing CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE PLASMA PROCESSING OF COLD DRAWN STEEL WIRE ROD Paolo Veronesi1, Roberto Rosa1, Cristina Leonelli1, Giovanni Cavatorta2 1Dept. of Materials and Environmental Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy 2 Trafileria e Zincheria Cavatorta, Calestano, Parma, Italy MICROWAVE PLASMA SYNTHESIS OF NANOPARTICULATE FILMS FOR LITHIUM-ION BATTERY APPLICATION D. Vinga Szabó, G. Kilibarda, S. Schlabach Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, IAM-WPT, Karlsruhe, Germany SILICON MICRO-SPHERES IN MICROWAVE-EXCITED BALL-LIGHTNING-LIKE PLASMOIDS Eli JERBY Tel Aviv University, RAMAT AVIV, Israel B7: Industrial applications RF HEATING IN ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY Ulf Roland*, Markus Kraus, Frank Holzer, Ulf Trommler, Peter Thiel and Frank-Dieter Kopinke Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Chemical Engineering, Leipzig, Germany INNOVATIVE PRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR FUEL BY MICROWAVE INTERNAL GELATION: INTERACTION MICROWAVES-MICROSPHERES. Cabanes-Sempere M.a,b, Catalá-Civera J.M.b, Vaucher S.c, Ishizaki K.c, Cozzo C.a, Pouchon M.A.a

a Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland b Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 València, Spain c EMPA Fuerwerkstrasse 39, 3602 Thun, Switzerland NEW MICROWAVE APPLICATOR FOR TIMBER SURFACE MODIFICATION (MODELLIG, DESIGN AND TESTS) Grigory Torgovnikov, Peter Vinden, Krisdianto Sugiyanto Department of Forest and Ecosystem Science, University of Melbourne, Creswick, Australia C7: Chemistry & biochemistry MICROWAVE ACTIVATION OF HETEROGENEOUS CATALYTIC REACTIONS Jiri Sobek, Milan Hajek Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague Czech Republic MICROWAVE APPLICATOR DESIGN FOR MICROWAVE ENHANCED MICROPROCESSING Guido Sturm1*, Georgios Stefanidis1, Martin Verweij2, Tom van Gerven3, Andrzej Stankiewicz1 1Process & Energy Department, Delft University of Technology 2Department Imaging Science and Technology, Delft University of Technology 3Department of Chemical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven *Leegwaterstraat 44, 2628 CA Delft, the Netherlands; THRESHOLD EFFECTS OF MICROWAVE IRRADIATION ON AQUEOUS NACL SOLUTION Guo-Zhu Jia College of Physics and Electronics Engineering,Sichuan Normal University,Chengdu,China College of Electronics and Information Engineering,Sichuan University,Chengdu,China