This document summarizes a study that investigated the heating patterns of different petroleum crude oils and water samples when exposed to microwave radiation in a modified domestic microwave oven. The key findings were:
1) Water reached the highest temperatures initially, followed by oils from the UAE and Saudi Arabia. After 110 seconds, a Kuwait crude oil sample surpassed the others in temperature.
2) Water absorbed microwave energy at the highest rate, followed by oils from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.
3) Water had the highest dielectric loss and lowest wavelength, while oil samples had lower and consistent dielectric properties and a longer wavelength.
4) Different crude oils exhibited distinct heating profiles when exposed to microwave
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The heating pattern of the microwave dehydrator for treating petroleum crude oils
1. IJRET: International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology eISSN: 2319-1163 | pISSN: 2321-7308
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Volume: 03 Issue: 03 | Mar-2014, Available @ http://www.ijret.org 184
THE HEATING PATTERN OF THE MICROWAVE DEHYDRATOR FOR
TREATING PETROLEUM CRUDE OILS
Souleyman A. Issaka1
, Abdurahman H. Nour2
, Rosli Mohd Yunus3
, Azhari, H.Nour4
1, 2, 3, 4
Faculty of Chemical and Natural Resources Engineering, University Malaysia Pahang
Abstract
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.cm3
) at the beginning
then decays as the heating time goes on, followed by that of Kuwait oil (0.8-1 cal/s.cm3
), then Saudi Arabia crude oil (0.6-0.8
cal/s.cm3
). 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.
Keywords: microwave dehydrator, heating petroleum oils, dielectric of petroleum, and dielectric of water.
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1. INTRODUCTION
This article shall investigate the effects of microwave heating
on some petroleum crude oils, the purpose of heating the pure
petroleum components is to gain some understanding on how
the individual phases of the of petroleum emulsion are heated,
thus the profile and dielectric properties of several three crude
oils and water phases shall be investigated.
The dramatic increase in the prices of energy these days had
catalyzed the desire to find new energy efficient ways of
industrial process (D. A. Jones et al., 2002), one of such ways
is the introduction of microwave in the processing industry (T.
J. Appleton et al., 2005), this paper shall investigate the
heating capacity of the domestic microwave on the individual
components that form the petroleum based emulsions. That is
because it has proven to be more efficient and safe from both
economic and environmental perspective (D. A. Jones et al.,
2002), (Su shiung lam et al., 2012). Microwave heats materials
volumetrically unlike the conventional heating, in microwave
heating, different materials get heated up differently
depending on their capacity to absorb the wave and convert
them to heat, hence only materials that process dielectric
properties can absorb microwave energy (J. P. Robinson et al.,
2008).
Fundamentally, microwave is a term used to designate the
thermal radiation waves falling in the range between 300 MHz
to 300 GHz (J. A. Menendez et al., 2010). Technically
speaking; most of the domestic oven as well as industrial
microwaves devises function at fixed frequency of 2.45 GHz
and various power levels. The usual wavelength for domestic
microwaves is 12.2 cm and the energy is 1.02 *10^-5 eV (D.
A. Jones et al., 2002),(Adrian Porch et al., 2012) .
Quan Bu and friends have used the microwave energy to
produce usable hydrocarbons from Saw dust (Quan Bu et al.,
2013). Microwave heats materials selectively and
volumetrically by inducing the orientation of charges as well
as dipoles at short processing time than the corresponding
conventional heating without affecting the recovered oil
quality (Rocio Perez-Paez et al., 2008). Thus far microwave
energy is well used in certain areas of research including,
Analytical chemistry, Microwave organic synthesis and
centering of ceramics (Vasily et al., 2012), indeed microwave
also reported to decrease the temperature of the chemical
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reaction (Vasily et al., 2012). Microwave energy may also be
applied in petroleum distillation especially the heavy polar
residues (Adrian Proch et al., 2012).
Fig 1: Dipole orientation under the microwave field (Rocio
Perez-paez et al., 2008)
Generally the electromagnetic power in converted to energy
within the absorbing materials, hence the power density per
unit volume is given mathematically by (H. Shang et al., 2006)
Pd = 2πfε0ε′′
E 2
(1)
Where:
f : Frequency (Hz)
ε0 : Permittivity of the free space (8.85 *10^-12)
ε′′
: Dielectric loss
E: magnitude of the electric field
Most of this absorbed energy is used to heat up the sample by
increasing its temperature; hence the relation between the
power absorption and rate of temperature rise is given by
∆T
∆t
=
2πfε0ε′′
E 2
ρCp
(2)
Where
∆T
∆t
is the rate of temperature increase within the
irradiated sample as the irradiation goes on.
From the previous equation (1), it is evident that, the
temperature rise within the material is directly proportional
with the square of the electric field strength, therefore in
designing the cavity, a profound definition of electric field is a
must (single mode and multiple mode) (H. Shang et al.,2006).
One of the most important mechanism with which microwave
interacts with material is the so called polarization effect. The
polarization is the mechanism of alignment reorientation of the
dipole or free charges of the system as electromagnetic wave
penetrates through, as depicted in figure 1 (Rocio Perez-paez
et al., 2008). Dipole is the state of bonding structure wherein
the atoms around molecules are unevenly balanced (N.
Bjorndalen et al., 2004).The heat generation process at the
dipole level would happen in such a way that, the dipoles try
to align and realign themselves (Oscilate) continuously with
the alternating electromagnetic field, thus molecules switch or
flip approximately 2.5 billion time/second when frequency
range is 2.45 GHz (domestic microwave oven), this huge
vibration would cause frictions among particles in the medium
that would generate energy in the forms of heat (T. J.
Appleton et al., 2005). The rate of temperature increase and
temperature raise becomes higher as the microwave power
level increases (Zhifeng Hu et al., 2012, normal domestic
ovens mostly poses five levels of power, from very low to
very high. Before designing microwave cavity for industrial or
pilot application, a good knowledge of dielectric properties is
crucial, however microwave also proved to reduce energy
consumption, increase process yield as well as abate some
environmental issues (D. A. Jones et al., 2002). The strength
of the electromagnetic field within the materials depends upon
several parameters including, the power level of microwave,
geometry of the sample holder as well as the portion of the
incident wave that is absorbed by the material. The absorbed
portion of the wave is in turn a very strong function of
dielectric characteristics of material, the dielectric properties
consists of two major parts, first of which is dielectric constant
representing the ability of materials to obstruct or store the
electromagnetic energy as it passes through, while the second
phenomena is the ability of materials to convert that stored
energy to heat. Both dielectric constant and dielectric loss are
functions of frequency, temperature, and types of materials (J.
P. Robinson et al., 2012). Large diameter applicator can
increase the surface area and improve wave absorption, but
beyond a certain diameter called critical diameter, the effect
would reverse and the opposite trend would take place (J. Zhu
et al., 2007).
So many researchers have suggested the use of microwave as
an alternative method to treat petroleum emulsion. Mingfu
Huang and friends have tried the use of microwave in
deacidification of distillate crude oil, however from their
results they have suggested several advantages of microwave
over the conventional heating, microwave was reported to be
highly efficient, less processing time as well as environmental
friendly (Mingfu Huang et al., 2006).
Other researchers used microwave to treat crude oil
contaminated soil at elevated temperature, however they used
Carbone fibers as absorbers to increase the microwave
properties of the soil (Li Dawei et al., 2009). Elsewhere,
microwave was applied to treat soil contaminated with crude
oil, paraffin oil and asphaltene (N. Bjorndalen et al., 2004).
In one article, it had reported that the presence of water in the
soil sample helped the sample to attain elevated dielectric
properties at low temperature below 100⁰ C (J. P. Robinson et
al., 2012).
Elsewhere the potential of use microwave energy in the
refinement of heavy fraction of the petroleum oil was
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investigated by determining the complex permittivity of the
heavy oil as function frequencies (Adrian porch et al., 2012).
Microwave was suggested as a mean to heat petroleum in
order to upgrade crude oil, remove heteroatom, as well as
facilitate the pumping from underground (viscosity reduction)
(Sateesh Mutyala et al.,2010). Microwave also used to
pyrolyse the waste automotive engine oil to produce some
useful fuels (Su shiung lam et al., 2012).
Massive amount of budget have been allocated as research
fund to implement microwave technology in the crude oil
processing application in last three decades, however, most of
the effort done thus far have paved the way to ask more
questions than it provide solutions (Sateesh Mutyala et al.,
2010).
Since microwave is currently recommended as very
convenient way of processing, therefore it is the aim of this
research to investigate effect of microwave radiation on
heating properties of various types of liquids, including water
and several crude oils. That is to get some ideas on how the
individual materials of emulsions respond to microwave
energy.
2. MATERIALS AND METHODS
Fig 2: Microwave dehydrator (MD)
Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the apparatus used to
carry out this experimental research, 1) sample holder (Round
bottom flask) inside the microwave oven, 2) thermocouple for
sensing the temperature, 3) hose to move the sample
(emulsion) in and out, 4) peristaltic pump, 5) sample tank, 6)
Pico data Logger for temperature monitoring.
The system consists of domestic microwave oven, with
maximum power output of 800watt, and 2450 MHz
frequencies, in this study, the operation frequencies were set at
800 watt, a container of 250 ml round bottomed flask was
used, a thermo couple was used to record the temperature
through a Pico data logger connected to computer.
2.1 Equation used for Data Interpretation
Equation 3 is used to calculate the heat generation of the
treated samples, after the convective and radiation terms were
eliminated from the general heat transfer equation.
)3(
dt
dT
Cq pMW
Where:
qmw : Volumetric rate of heat generation (Cal/s.cm3)
ρ and Cp : are the density and heat capacity of materials
(g/C3) and (Cal/g.⁰ C)
dT/dt : The rate of temperature increase (⁰ C/S)
The temperature data are collected using the Picodata Loger
device which is connected to PC,
The dielectric constant and dielectric loss of water used for the
model in this study was given by wolf, (Wolf. 1986)
)4(33583.0215.85'
'
Twr
)5(685.320 0268.1
'
''
Twr
Where
'
: Dielectric constant of water
''
: Dielectric loss of water
Van Hippel. (1954), proposed equation for dielectric
properties of various petroleum oils, in this regard dielectric
constant and loss tangent of crude oil for this study calculated
from the equation below:
)6(000727.024.2'
'
Tor
2.2 Measurement of Penetration Depth and
Wavelength within the Heated Sample
Gallawa (1989) reported that, there is a direct relationship
between the frequency and the wavelength. There is also a
relationship between the frequency and the degree, or speed of
heating, as well as the depth of penetration. The wavelength
(which is the distance between positive peaks or negative
peaks of two adjacent waves) is equal to the speed of light
divided by the frequency. For practical purposes, the speed of
light does not change. Therefore, the only two variables in
equation are the frequency and the wavelength, their
relationship as follows:
)7(
f
c
m
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Where:
m : Wavelength (cm)
c : Speed of light (cm.s-1)
f : Frequency (Hz)
The above relation indicates, the higher the frequency, the
shorter the wavelength, and vice versa (low frequency,
corresponds to longer the wavelength. (Tanmay (2004) related
the microwave penetration depth pD
and wavelength of
radiation in the medium m to dielectric constant r
'
and
dielectric loss (loss factor) r
''
in the following manner.
)8(
11**2
2/1
2
'
''
'
r
r
r
p
f
c
D
And
)9(
11
2
2/1
2
'
''
'
r
r
r
m
f
c
The two most common techniques for dielectric properties
measurements are the resonant cavity, or cavity perturbation
method, and the transmission and reflection method, however,
the current researchers used the existing correlation to relate
wavelength to the dielectric properties as given in equation
(9).
3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Three different samples were used, namely; two petroleum
oils and one water, In this study the microwave power level
was fixed at the maximum of 800 watt, the irradiation time
was recorded from zero to 3.5 minutes with one minute
increment, then interpreted as shown in the graphs, actually
each point in the X-axis of the graph is average of 10 points in
the original data, the variables investigated were the
temperature profile, volumetric heat generation and dielectric
properties.
3.1 The Temperature Profiles of the Individual
Components
The heating properties of the pure components (water and
crude oils) were carried out and their results were plotted in
the subsequent graphs.
Fig 3: Heating of pure water and pure oils at 800 Watt for 3.5
minutes
Figure 3 represents the experimental data of the pure Raw
materials (water, and three different crude oils), as it is clear
from the Figure 3, in all cases initially within the first 20
seconds; all components had similar temperature profile of
more or less 50 °C and gradually the temperature trend of each
component had taken different paths, thus water had the path
with the maximum values of temperature compared to the
others. within the interval from 20 seconds until 90 seconds,
that was in accordance with the theory which consider water
as more polar than hydrocarbons (oils) and supposed to absorb
and generate more energy from the incident electromagnetic
wave that could be evidenced by the increase of the
temperature (Alvin et al.,2009), (Vasily A. Bolotov et al.,
2012).
however at 90 seconds, the temperature of water had reached a
plateau at around 100 °C and remained constant till the end of
the irradiation period of 210 seconds, that plateau could be
attributed to the fact that the dielectric properties (would be
discussed latter on) which responsible of converting the
electromagnetic wave into energy, note that an increase in
irradiation time will increase the sample temperature, another
possible cause of plateau in the temperature of water may be
due to physical properties such as boiling point, heat capacity
and density (F. Kormin et al., 2013). Beside that for Kuwait
and UAE oils had to some extend equivalent trend evidenced
by the overlap on their two curves within the irradiation period
between 20 s to 80 s, they also appeared to be the components
with the second highest temperature path in this particular
interval, but after that interval or after 80 s was elapsed; the
path of the Kuwait oil had increased even more and intersect
with water path at 105 °C, after that it exceeded the water
path, and continued sharply to170 °C at the end of the
irradiation time, this in a direct disagreement with the
electromagnetic theory which strongly relates microwave
heating with polarity and conductivity, however authors
attributed this strange thermal behavior of the Kuwait crude
oil under the microwave heating to the existence of some ionic
elements or fatty acids within the crude oils, since microwave
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
10 30 50 70 90 110 140 160 180 200 220
Temperature(T°C)
Irradiation time (S)
Pure water
Kuwait oil
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heating of materials is a strong function of temperature and
thus materials with low dielectric properties including
insulators tend to absorb and couple more effectively with
microwave energy as temperature increase (T. J. Appleton et
al., 2005).
UAE oil had taken another path with a bit lower temperature
than Kuwait oil and intersected with water curve at 145s, then
exceeded the water path and reached around 120 °C at the end
of the irradiation time, finally Saudi Arabian crude oil was
observed to have the lowest thermal properties with a
maximum temperature of around 80 °C, , this is somehow in
accordance with the electromagnetic theory, during the whole
irradiation time of 220 seconds, thus in summary one can say
in the beginning water had the maximum temperature profile
followed by Kuwait oil, UAE Oil, then Saudi Arabia oil,
however at end of irradiation time, Kuwait oil has the
maximum thermal capacity followed by UAE oil, water then
Saudi Arabian crude oil.
Fig 4: Heating rates of the pure components at 800 Watt and
3.5 minutes
Figure 4 represents the heating rates of the same individual
components, and shows the temperature increases with time,
and that would give a clear idea on how materials would
responds to microwave and the wave absorption and heat
generation varies with time, since it is well known that
microwave heating is energy conversion and materials absorb
microwave energy by two mechanisms, one ionic conduction
and the other is dipole rotation that depends strongly on the
temperature of the sample, polarity of the sample as well as
conductivity of the sample, hence in the current experimental
observations, in contrast to what had been seen with
temperature vs. time curves (figure 3), every component have
different initial rate of temperature increase, although it
reaches the maximum very fast, in first 30 seconds of
radiation all of the curves had converged at heating rate of
around 1.2 °C /s and from that convergence point as it can be
seen from the figure; the heating rate of water had exceeded
the others, hence the heating rate of the Kuwait and UAE oils
were observed to decrease after they have converged with the
water curve, regarding the Saudi Arabian crude oils the
heating rate was drastically decreased in comparision to the
other components.
Regarding the water again; the heating had reached a second
maximum of around 1.2 0C/s, after which it started to decrease
until it crosses the curves of both Kuwait and UAE oils which
have had reached a plateau at around 0.8 and 0.5 °C /s
respectively but it has not reached the Saudi Arabian crude oil
whose plateau was at around 0.4 °C /s, Generally it’s clear
from this experimental results that, crude oil from Kuwait had
ended up having the maximum heating rate at the beginning of
the process (at low temperature) and at the end of the process
(at high temperature), followed by the crude oil from Saudi
Arabia which had the second highest heating rate at the
beginning and the lowest heating rate at medium and high
temperature. UAE crude oil has medium heating rate based on
this experiment at the beginning at low temperature and
medium as well as at high temperature, and finally water had
the lowest heating rate at low temperature and have the highest
at medium temperature and medium heating rate at high
temperature, however these results were not in accordance
with the literature according to which water should have had
the maximum heating rate over all types of oil and that is
because first, water is a polar molecules with permanent
dipoles and secondly it has higher dielectric properties than
the non-polar hydrocarbon oils, however this contradictions
may be as a result of the fact that crude oils are mixture of
thousands of component including charges carrying
components such as fatty acids, heavy metals (Sulfurs,
vanadium, Nickel and the likes). All of these compounds may
have contributed synergistically and gave the current unusual
results, however most of the previous articles claimed that
water would have higher heating rate than crude oils but the
current experimental work showed just the opposed, however,
the theory still hold for some cases, for example the case of
the Saudi Arabia oil; it does have lower heating rate and also
lower temperature than water.
3.2 The Volumetric Rate of Heat Generation of the
Individual Components
Basically, materials absorb microwave energy through by the
dielectric properties, and that is the reason why some time
microwave material processing is referred to energy
conversion instead of heat transfer, since microwave also does
not obey the common rule of conventional heating in which
heat is transferred either through conduction or convection
from the high temperature location to lower temperature
location, thus it is important for an investigator to have some
rough idea on how the heat is generated within the volume of
the sample as the irradiation goes on, together with the
dielectric properties of the component which are function of
temperature.
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
140
150
160
170
180
190
200
210
220
heatingratedT/dt(°C/s)
Irradiation time (s)
pure water
Kuwait crude oil
UAE crude oil
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Fig 5: The volumetric rate of heat generation of the singles
phases at 800 watt for 3.5 minutes
Figure 5 represents the experimental results of the volumetric
rate of heat generation of different materials at their single
phase states via microwave energy, the values of volumetric
heat generation was calculated by inserting the temperature
data in equation 3, hence figure 5 depicted the data of the pure
substance at their single phase states namely pure water, pure
Kuwait oil and pure S.A. oil, at the beginning of the irradiation
specifically within the first 10 seconds all materials were
found to have the highest capacity to generate heat from the
incident electromagnetic waves, then in the subsequent period
two distinct trends were observed, in one trend the volumetric
heat generation of the crude oils were found to decrease with
increasing the irradiation time until they reached plateau after
60 seconds. despite that Kuwait crude oil was found to have
high capability to generate more heat than Saudi Arabia oil,
from the same figure; the curve of the Kuwait crude oil was
started at 0.8 cal/s*cm3, and decayed as time went on till
reached plateau at 0.4 cal/g*cm3 ,while that of the Saudi
Arabia had started at around 0.7 cal/g*cm3 and reached
plateau at around 0.3 cal/g*cm3 and that may be due to the
elemental composition of each crude as reported earlier in the
literature. Secondly; water was found to have different trend
that had the highest quantitative values of the volume rate of
heat generation over the crude oils this behavior is in
accordance with the theory, since water possess high polarity
and high dielectric properties as well, another significant
information is that the highest values of heat generation in
water sample were observed at intermediate irradiation time
(from 30s to 100s), unlike the crude oils whose maximum heat
generation was observed at the beginning then decreased as
the irradiation goes on until the plateau.
3.3 Dielectric Properties
The upcoming Figure 6 shows the dielectric properties of
same previously discussed single phase components, however
the result was found to be in accordance with the theory in the
sense that water had the highest dielectric constant and
dielectric loss; another significant observation is that all crude
oil were shown to possess very little dielectric properties and
this rise some ambiguities since it has already seen
previously that crude oils are generating heat out of the
electromagnetic wave almost in the same fashion as water
does. Moreover the temperature raise of the Kuwait crude oil
had even exceeded that of the water (refer to Figure 3) this is
to somehow in contradiction with the general rule of thumb of
the electromagnetic
Fig 6 : Dielectric Loss of the pure components
Theory, which says only the dielectric materials can absorb the
incident wave and convert them to heat, however researcher
attributed this to the fact that, crude oils naturally consists of
thousands of component among of which some charge
carrying elements or ions that could align and rearrange or
even move Within the sample as a response to the incident
wave, then this movement would lead to energy generation
that is evidenced by the rise in sample temperature, no much
research have been done thus far on how the trace elements on
the crude oil could contribute to the heating process other than
the well known fact that microwave does not penetrate the
opaque materials. The trend of the water sample curve is to
some extend similar with finding by Li Dawei, who observed
a decrease in the dielectric loss of the water contaminated soil
sample with increasing temperature, when temperature
reached beyond 100⁰ C, however he explained that because of
evaporation of the water molecules in the soil sample (phase
change) (Li Dawei et al., 2009).
Avijid and coworker have investigated the thermal profile of
some porous metals, and postulated that electrically
conducting minerals does absorb microwave power but their
absorption is just limited to their skin depth which is a
function of material permittivity, conductivity and angular
frequency (Avijid et al., 2009).
J.P. Robinson has investigated the dielectric properties of
moist soil sample, they found it to increase with increasing
temperature, at temperature below 100 (J. P. Robinson et al.,
2012).
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1
1.2
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
110
120
130
140
150
160
170
180
190
200
210
q(mw)(cal/s.cm3)
Time (s)
pure water
pure Kuwait
oil
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3.4 Wavelength and Penetration Depth of the
Individual Components
This section would elaborate about the behavior of the
electromagnetic wave itself when it penetrates through
materials, in terms of wavelength and penetration depths.
Fig 7: wave length of the pure components, (0.05 and 0.1%
are the concentration of the demulsifiers used)
Figure 7 represents the wavelength of microwave on the pure
components, from experimental data depicted in this figure it
was clear that microwave had a very short wave length in
water sample, hence the wave length was around 1.7 cm and 8
cm for water and crude oils respectively, this means there
must be some dissipation of microwave in another word the
electromagnetic waves are dissipated in the medium, absorbed
and converted to energy while its passing through , and that
was clearly evidenced by the increase in the sample
temperature as the irradiation goes on, and that is due to the
ion mobility or ionic conduction factor were mentioned in
earlier section of this study. Jeffrey and friends have reported
the dependencies of the dielectric properties on the
temperature of the system (Jeffrey D. Macklis et al., 1979).
4. CONCLUSIONS
The heating pattern of water and crude oil was successfully
carried out in this experimental study, from this experimental
results, it was found that all materials shown to respond well
to the microwave irradiation, and that was evidenced from the
temperature curves in which sample temperatures were found
to increase with increasing irradiation time, however, water
curve had reached a plateau at 100⁰ C, but oil samples have
not attained any critical plateau.
With regard to wavelength in the samples, water had the
shortest wavelength of 2 Cm, followed by oils whose
wavelengths had an identical numerical value of 8 Cm. hence
this results proved that both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia crude
oils respond well to microwave energy, that might be due to
the heteroatoms, asphaltenes, naphthenic acids and other
microwave susceptible molecules which might act as free
charges promoting ion mobility and migration effects.
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