Electricity
Utilisation Group [E.U.G]
See PUBLICATIONS below for the
latest work to be published by the E.U.G. in conjunction with the Engineering
Dept.
The next SHORT COURSE on RF and MICROWAVE HEATING at St
John’s College, Cambridge, UK will be announced here or download a registration
form from here.
Academic Staff
Dr Richard Ehlers, Im Tale 29, 20251,
Dr G Georghiou,
Dr. AC (Ricky) Metaxas, St
John's College, Cambridge, UK
Dr Antonis Papadakis,
The ELECTRICITY
UTILISATION GROUP
continues its work allied to the Engineering
Department of the
Efforts at present center
on MICROWAVE and RADIO FREQUENCY heating as well as modelling of coronas and
arcs
IN-HOUSE ELECTROMAGNETIC SOFTWARE
The E.U.G has developed an in-house FE code
for microwave heating (900-2450 MHz) and has also adapted the code for Radio
Frequency heating in the range 10-50 MHz. The microwave simulation work can
also handle wall losses and thin metallic films for food packaging
applications. First and higher order edge elements can be used in simulating
the e/m field within microwave heating cavities.
IN-HOUSE
SIMULATION OF
A major activity involves
the simulation of coronas and streamers at DC and RF in order to study the
vexed issue of corona which can lead to arcing in radio frequency industrial
heating or drying. The Finite Element code has been combined with the well
known FCT (Flux Corrected Transport) method to produce an FE-FCT code for such
work. The code has now been extended and validated to 3D and additional code
has been written and coupled to the original corona code to simulate
numerically the transition from corona to arc. More publications will follow
soon.
PUBLICATIONS: A list of
the publications from the E.U.G. is found here
We also carry out
consultancy work for industry and commerce on specific issues relating to electricity
utilisation and electroheat activities. Please visit the following website www.metaxas-associates.com
for details The e-mail for such enquiries is acm@metaxas-associates.com
BOOKS emanating from the EUG
Foundations
of Electroheat: A unified approach
A student edition is now available. Details of its contents and cost here.
Industrial Microwave Heating
This book is still on sale even though it was first published in 1983. It has
been reprinted in 1988 andf 1993. It still forms an authoritative treatise of
modern microwave heating principles and practice. The authors are Dr Ricky
Metaxas and Mr Roger Meredith. It can be obtained directly from the publishers
IEE, Michael Faraday House,
Short course
on Radio Frequency and Microwave Heating
The NEXT
SHORT COURSE will be announced in this
website. Also you can visit www.metaxas-associates.com
for details and to download a registration form.
For more information contact Dr AC Metaxas on: Tel and Fax: +44 (0) 1223 338646 or Tel +44(0) 1223 353076, E-mail acm33@cam.ac.uk or acm@metaxas-associates.com mobile 07710 037 127
Microwave
and High Frequency Heating Conference Series
The above series are
organised under the auspices of AMPERE the European based association which is
devoted to promoting RF and microwave heating techniques to industry and
commerce (see below). The association's President is at present Professor Elias
de Los Reyes of the
Next AMPERE CONFERENCE will be held at
Ampere Association [AMPERE EUROPE
PLC]
and its Newsletter
AMPERE, is a European based association which is devoted to promoting RF
and microwave heating techniques in industry and commerce. Its President is at
present Prof Elias de los Reyes who is at the technical
AMPERE is a registered as a non-profit organisation based in the
Dr. Ricky Metaxas also
edits the AMPERE NEWSLETTER covering
topics in radio frequency and microwave heating from 1 MHz to 20 GHz. Short
articles for inclusion in the Newsletter are very welcome and prospective
authors should contact the editor in the first instance.
As from 2007 the Newsletter will go online and it will not be sent to
members in printed format. More details will be given in the AMPERE website.