The effect of microwave dehydrator (modified domestic microwave oven) different types of petroleum oils were investigated in this paper, since microwave heats material selectively and volumetrically in relatively short time, and since its application in treating petroleum emulsion is tremendously recommended, thereof, it is the aim of this paper to investigate the microwave induced heating capacities of the individual components of the petroleum emulsion mixture. Three types of crude petroleum oils and water samples were put into test, from the result of this study, the temperature profile was observed to proceed as follow, at the first 20 seconds, all samples had similar temperature profiles in the range (50-60 ⁰C), however, beyond 20 seconds there was a clear distinct trend for every sample, in the interval from 20 seconds to 110 seconds, water sample had the curve with the highest temperature profile followed by UAE crude oil, then Saudi Arabia oil. Beyond 110 seconds, Kuwait crude oil had the maximum temperature profile continued sharply without reaching any plateau, followed by UAE then Saudi Arabia crude oil. The volumetric rate of heat generation also found to be in such a way that water sample had the maximum numerical value in the range (1-1.2 cal/s.cm 3 ) at the beginning then decays as the heating time goes on, followed by that of Kuwait oil (0.8-1 cal/s.cm 3 ), then Saudi Arabia crude oil (0.6-0.8 cal/s.cm 3 ). Furthermore water also found to have the highest dielectric loss ranged between (7-8) and lowest wavelength in the range (1.5-2) followed by all the oil samples which had constant and identical dielectric properties in the range (0-0.5) and wavelength of 8 Cm. from the experimental results of this research, one can conclude that although both water and crude oils can interact effectively with microwave radiation yet the mechanism may not be the same since oils were shown to have very low dielectric loss. Another observation is different crude oils have different heating pattern, there this had to be into consideration when studying crude emulsion or refining.
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