Abstract
Microwave heating exhibits a high potential for usage in liquid food processing. Current microwave heating systems are designed for a specific load. However, when the permittivity of the load changes dynamically, the heating efficiency of these systems fluctuates considerably. We proposed a novel high-efficiency microwave liquid heating system for dynamic dielectric loads to address this limitation. In this system, an electromagnetic black hole efficiently absorbs electromagnetic waves in all directions. First, an electromagnetic black hole was realized using metamaterials (which means artificially structured dielectric materials with extraordinary physical properties) with a radially continuous refractive index distribution. Next, an electromagnetic field simulation model was established to calculate the microwave absorption of various load permittivity. To discretize and simplify the parameters of the continuous distribution in an electromagnetic black hole, a concentric layered structure and a punched structure composed of uniform isotropic dielectric materials were designed. Finally, the experimental samples were processed based on the two discrete structures. The microwave system developed for experimental verification confirmed the high efficiency of the heating system; the system is simple and usable in numerous applications. Thus, the proposed method can realize high-efficiency heating of loads over large dielectric dynamic ranges. When the dielectric constant of the load changed dynamically from 10 to 80, the microwave energy utilization rate can increase by up to 90%.
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