INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES

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INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES
State Scientific Institution Institute for
Single Crystals and Technological park
Institute for Single Crystals
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SSI Institute for Single Crystals of
NASUDirections of activity

• new materials and technologies
• new applications of materials and technologies
• unique equipment
• Including
• - chemistry
• - physics
• - material science
• - technologies

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Technological park Institute for Single Crystals

• Mission development and production of innovative
  technologies and equipment
• Basic products technologies and equipment for
  industrial microwave drying and cleaning

Market to be served chemical, pharmaceutical,
agricultural, food industry, medicine, ecology,
information technologies, aircraft industry etc.
Since 2000
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UNIVERSAL ENERGY SOURCE
Domestic application
Industrial application
Electricity
Science
Agriculture
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MICROWAVES AS UNIVERSAL ENERGY SOURCE
Domestic (MW oven)
Industrial ?
MICROWAVES
Science (laboratorial equipment) in progress
Agricultural ?
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Products and servicesWhat is the problem?

• Energy usage universal problem for universal
  sources of energy.
• Time time is money.
• Quality a key factor for market competition.

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Products and servicesWhat is the product?
Heating
Drying
MW equipment
Cleaning
Technology of application
Concentration
Microwaves
Additional features
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Products and Services What is the product? (Case
study)
Vacuum microwave drying system

• Areas of application
• Drying of many solid materials
• chemical and pharmaceutical substances
• construction materials
• grain (wheat, corn, barley etc.)
• fruits and vegetables
• foodstuffs
• herbage
• Concentration of water solutions

Pharma-micro
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Products and servicesWhat are the benefits to
users?(Case study)

• In comparison with existing thermal drying
  systems microwave one allows
• decrease of power consumption by 5 20 times
• shortening of drying time by 2 10 times
• selective removal water without destruction of
  other components
• efficient drying of thermally unstable
  substances, for example, pharmaceutical
  ingredients, at the room temperature
• absence of agglomeration
• simultaneous sterilization of products or
  additional activation of grain depending on
  technology applied
• easy concentration of water solutions at room
  temperature

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Products and servicesHow does it work?(Case
study)

• Key elements
• decrease of water boiling point due to vacuum
• selective evaporation of water without
  overheating of other components of materials
• simultaneous heating of whole volume
• Water evaporates at the room temperature
  simultaneously within whole volume of material
  and is removed by vacuum system.

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Products and servicesMicrowave cleaning
technology

• Problem drying, cleaning and sterilization of
  glass volumes is time consuming and unreliable.
• Product microwave vacuum cleaning technology and
  equipment.
• Areas of application medicine, chemical and
  pharmaceutical industry.
• Benefits
• simultaneous drying, cleaning and sterilization
• time required is only 5 20 min
• process at the room temperature
• 100 reliability
• How technology use microwave plasma at the low
  pressure

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Products and Services Microwave Heating Technology
Problem Heating is extremely power consuming
process Product Technology and equipment for
microwave heating Areas of application Chemical
and pharmaceutical industry Benefits - Decrease
of power consumption by 5-100 times - Decrease
of process time by 2-50 times - Fast
optimization of conditions of target product
leading to increase of efficiently of
production by 2-10 times
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MANAGMENT
Microwave cluster is includes scientists and
engineers from SSI Institute for Single
Crystals of National Academy of Sciences of
Ukraine and Technological Park Institute for
Single Crystals.
Search for the best applications
SSI ISC
Application of new technology
Development of technology
TP ISC
Development of equipment
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MANAGMENT
Team includes 2 Professors 6 Ph.D. 20
Young researchers and engineers Potentially other
researchers from SSI ISC can be involved into
the project
Areas of Activity in MW
Science Scientific articles (7 for the last
years).
Technology 10 patents of Ukraine 2 patents of
Russia
Equipment 5 experimental 2 industrial
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Market Analysis

• Favorable conditions
• Increase of power price
• Increase of requirements for medicine and
  pharmacy
• Strengthening of competition in chemical and
  pharmaceutical industry due to cheap manpower in
  China and India
• Trends to application of Green chemistry and
  Green industry

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Market Analysis

• Potential Customers
• Chemical and pharmaceutical industry
• - plant
• - laboratories
• - any size companies
• Medical laboratories
• Agricultural enterprises

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Market Analysis (SWOT)
Strengths - relatively low price - easy to
demonstrate advantages - high mobility -
customized construction and design Weakness -
require wide advertising and explanation (too
new technology for industry) - necessary to
change old technology schemes Opportunities
- reconstruction of many chemical and
pharmaceutical enterprises - power
price Threats - possibility to reproduce
technology and equipment by other
companies - possible technical problems with
scaling new technologies up for large-capacity
production