Radio heating

Harland Manchester. The Magic of High-Octane Gas. Harper s Magazine. 184 (Feb. 1942) 286-293. Source for underpowered cars in 1920s traffic TEL adds radios, heating, and heavy frames to cars and TEL s effect on World War II planes. 

A plasma of electrons, ions, and neutrals produced in gas flowing through concentric tubes is maintained and heated to 5000 to 8000 K by inductive coupling to a high (radio) frequency... 

The AEG sponsored research ia the program known as Systems for Nuclear AuxiHary Power (SNAP) as early as the 1950s. Most of the systems developed iavolved the radioisotope plutonium-238 as a heat source for a thermoelectric generator. Such electrical suppHes permitted radio transmission to earth from spacecraft such as Pioneer and l qyager. 

An innovative companion technology to SVE is radio frequency heating of the soil (42,43). Heating the soil increases the volatilization of the containments which are removed by SVE. Antennae are installed near the center of the contaminated area the radio frequency energy appHed through the anteimae heat the soil to target levels of 100 to 150°C. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, SITE Technology Capsule IITRI Radio Frequeny Heating Technology, EPA/540/R-94/527a, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995. 

Radio and television uses largely arise from the ability to produce components with a high level of dimensional accuracy coupled with good dielectric properties, high heat distortion temperatures and the availability of selfextinguishing grades. Specific uses include coil formers, picture tube deflection yokes and insert card mountings. 

Figure 9.2-2 shows a data input screen in which general characteristics are input by radio buttons and numerical data is typed. The program calculates distances to specified in.sic concentrations and other requested consequence levels automatically. Results are available in a variety of formats including cloud footprints, sideview, cross section, pool evaporation rate, concentration vs distance and heat flux contours. Figure 9.2-3 shows the calculated results as a toxic plume. superimposed on the map with and without oligomerization. 

Compression and injection molding are used with amino resins to produce articles such as radio cabinets, buttons, and cover plates. Because melamine resins have lower water absorption and better chemical and heat resistance than urea resins, they are used to produce dinnerware and laminates used to cover furniture. Almost ah molded objects use fillers such as cellulose, asbestos, glass, wood flour, glass fiber and paper. The 1997 U.S. production of amino resins was 2.6 billion pounds. 

The process by which heat is emitted from a body and transmitted across space as energy is called radiation. Heat radiation is a form of wave energy in space similar to radio and light waves. Radiation does not require any intermediate medium such as air for its transfer. It can readily take place across a vacuum. 

Among the causes producing irreversibility w7e may instance the forces depending on friction in solids, viscosity of liquids imperfect elasticity of solids inequalities of temperature (leading to heat conduction) set up by stresses in solids and fluids generation of heat by electric currents diffusion chemical and radio-active changes and absorption of radiant energy. 

Obtaining an accurate and detailed depth-age relationship for an ice core is, of course, a necessary task for learning paleoclimate histories. Approximate time scales can be calculated using numerical models of ice and heat flow for the core site (Reeh, 1989), constrained by estimates of the modem accumulation rate and by measurements of ice thickness from radio-echo-sounding surveys. 

TPEs can be bonded to other materials by adhesive, heat bonding, electromagnetic filling, radio frequency, heat-sealing lamination, friction and spin welding, and ultrasonic welding. For TPUs, the most widely used techniques are radio frequencies, and ultrasonic and hot stamping. A few typical applications include football bladders, valves, and conveyer belts. 

Radiation with long wavelengths falls in the infrared, microwave, or radio frequency regions. Heat lamps make use of infrared radiation, microwave ovens cook with microwave radiation, and radio and television signals are transmitted by radio waves. 

We have also included R.F. (radio-frequency) current as a heating element, although it is only a heating method when employed with a suitable succeptor. Finally, one other method is listed for the sake of completeness, that of the oxy-hydrogen flame. It generates combustion products (H2O) but the RF- method can be used in any atmosphere... 

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