Ohmic heating is one of the earliest applications of electricity in thermal processing of food and is receiving increased attention because of its uniform heating of liquids with faster heating rates, which presumably enables obtaining products of a superior quality to those processed by conventional heating technologies. Given the biochemical structure of proteins, it is expectable that ohmic ...

The inherent nonlinearities in the kinetics and heat transfer models of biomass pyrolysis have led to the applications of various numerical methods in solving the nonlinear problems. However, in order to have physical insights into the phenomena and to show the direct relationships between the parameters of the models, analytical solutions are required. In this work, approximate analytical solu...

Analysis of entropy generation rate for transient heat conduction, taking place in homogeneous solid slab with fixed temperature boundary conditions, is presented. The initial condition is defined as a constant temperature. The exact solution is solved and used to analyze the local and total entropy generation rates. Two cases, heating and cooling processes, are considered in this study. It is ...

The bubble nucleation temperatures of several organic liquids (methanol, ethanol, butanol, n-heptane) on stress-minimized platinum (Pt) films supported by SiN membranes is examined by pulse-heating the membranes for times ranging from 1 µs to 10 µs. The results show that the nucleation temperatures increase as the heating rates of the Pt films increase. Measured nucleation temperatures approach...

Next generation, 100 nm, devices require junctions shallower than 33 nm with sheet resistances less than 600 ohms/square. A new technique for annealing implanted dopants utilizes electromagnetic fields to induce current flow through the wafer. Ohmic collisions between high-energy electrons and the lattice rapidly heats the silicon; providing the energy necessary for dopant activation. Heating r...

Thermal behavior of plastic materials can be improved by knowing thermal degradation kinetics for the optimal design and operation of pyrolysis process. In the present study, thermogravimetric analysis has been used for the non-isothermal kinetic study of waste high-density polyethylene pyrolysis under nitrogen atmosphere at different heating rates 10, 20 and 40 °C/min. The kinetic parameters, ...