This slides will show you the mechanism of a microwave oven.

1. Mechanism of Microwave Oven

2. Submitted by :
Afif Al Mamun

3. Contents
➤ Introduction
➤ History
➤ Technical Design
➤ How it Works
➤ Advantages
➤ Health Hazards

4. Introduction
•A microwave oven is a kitchen
appliance that heats and cooks food.
•Microwave ovens convert electrical
energy into a form of electromagnetic
radiation called microwaves. A microwave oven.

5. •Microwaves are radio waves with frequencies 2500 MHz and the
radio waves at this frequency has an important property
characteristic food particles that contain water, fats and sugars
absorb microwave radiation through atoms and molecules of food
and absorption of this radiation gives energy make the move
significantly and collide and produce heat for heating cooking.
Microwaves in electromagnetic radiation spectrum.

6. •All microwaves use a timer for the cooking time,
at the end of cooking time, the oven switches
itself off.
•Microwave ovens heat food without getting hot
themselves.
•A 2006 study found that microwaving wet
sponges for two minutes (at 1000 watt power)
removed 99% of coliforms, E. coli and MS2 phages.
So, microwaves oven are great to use.

7. History
1. It was invented accidently in 1945 by
Dr. Percy LeBaron Spencer.
2. During world war 2, two scientist
made the magnetron, a tube that
produce microwaves.
3. In 1967 the first countertop, domestic
oven was introduced.
4. By 1975 sales of microwave ovens
exceeded that of Gas Ranges.
Percy Spencer’s microwave oven.

8. Microwave oven from early days.
6. The first microwave oven was priced at
$2,000.00 to $3,000.00.
7. After two years they made a smaller
version of the microwave oven and it was
priced at $500.00.
8. Mostly used by restaurants, railroad cars,
ocean liners and military.
9. In 1980, it becomes necessity for every
home maker.
5. In 1976, the microwave oven became a
more commonly owned kitchen appliance.
Microwave oven by now.

9. “Radarange”, the first
commercially available
microwave oven.

10. Technical Design
➤ Basic design of a Microwave oven.
•The basic design of a microwave oven is simple. A transformer,
a magnetron, a stirrer, a waveguide and a control panel is
located on the external casing where oven cavity is normally
bolted. There is a front panel on the oven body by which user
can control/program the machine.

11. Basic design of a microwave oven.

12. ➤ Magnetron
•Magnetron is a high-powered vacuum tube which
generates microwave.
•It’s a diode type electron tube.
•There’s a cathode at the center
of a magnetron.
•A ring shaped anode surrounds
the cathode.
A Magnetron. Here the yellow part in the middle is
cathode and the surrounding bronze part is anode.

13. ➤ Waveguide
•A waveguide is a structure that guides microwaves.
A rod shaped metal waveguide.
•Generally waveguide is
made of brass, copper, silver,
aluminum, or any metal that
has low bulk resistivity.

14. ➤ Stirrer.
•Looks like a fan.
•Usually situated at the top of
the cavity.
•Moves the microwaves around
the cavity.
A microwave stirrer.

15. ➤ Main chassis
A microwave oven.
•The main chassis is placed on the pallet,
and the cavity is screwed on to the chassis.
And the door is attached next to the cavity.
•A front panel that allows the operator
to select the various settings and
features available for cooking is
attached to the chassis.
•This is the place where every parts of a
microwave oven is organized.

16. A complex design of a microwave oven.

17. How it Works!
•Magnetron tube has tank circuits in it
•Streams of electrons amplify tank
oscillations
•A loop of wire extracts energy from
tanks.
•A short ¼-wave antenna emits the
microwaves
➤ Generating microwaves

18. ➤ Working Principles
•Microwave oven works by passing non-ionizing
microwave radiation , usually at a frequency 2.45
GHz( a wavelength of 12.24 cm), through the
food…water, fat & other substances in the food
absorb energy from the microwaves in a process
called dielectric heating .
•Many molecules (water) are electric dipoles,
meaning that they have “+”charge at one end & “-
” charge at other end therefore rotate as they try
to align themselves & this rotation put them into
motion which creates heat.

19. •Microwave Oven generates
electromagnetic waves(called
microwaves), which makes water
move.
•Microwave causes molecules to vibrate.
•Vibration creates friction.
•Friction produces the heat that cook
the food.

20. Heating Effect
•Microwave heating is more
efficient on liquid water.
•Much less so on fats &
sugars(which have less molecular
dipole moment).
•And frozen water (where the
molecules are not free to rotate).

21. Advantages
1. It saves time and energy.
2. It is safer than general fuel stoves.
3. Taste of the foods remain same.
4. If properly used, microwave cooking does not affect the nutrient
content of foods.
5. Reduces the consumption of oil.

22. Health Hazards
1. Microwave radiation can heat body tissue the same way it
heats food.
2. Exposure to high levels of microwaves can cause a painful burn.
4. Microwave oven used low level of microwaves, within the
region of non-ionizing radiation.
5. Microwaving converts vitamin B12 from an active to
inactive form.
3. Still uncertain in the effects of humans from long term exposure
to low level of microwaves.

23. References
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/how-magnetrons-work.html
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Microwave-Oven.html
http://www.smecc.org/microwave_oven.htm
http://www.microtechfactoryservice.com/magnetron.html
http://hiend-audio.com/2014/12/23/the-end-of-thermionic-valves-report-part-ii/
http://www.explainthatstuff.com/microwaveovens.html
http://www.mostinside.com/microwave-oven-advantages-and-disadvantages
http://www.microwaves101.com/encyclopedias/waveguide-construction

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