GEM has since its very beginning dedicated numerous efforts towards microwave heating research as an alternative to conventional energy use. Nowadays industries employ traditional technologies that, in many cases, may be substituted and/or combined with more efficient microwave energy techniques. GEM is confident of the enormous possibilities of microwaves and therefore has focused its main research line towards industrial application processes where microwaves could represent a competitive alternative to more conventional heating sources.

Some examples of our research interest in this line are:

• Energy efficiency optimization of microwave heating ovens.
• Analysis and optimization techniques for obtaining uniform electric field patterns within the dielectric sample.
• Microwave-assisted drying modeling.
• Analysis and optimization of all kind of industrial applications of microwave energy such as:
• Microwave-assisted rubber curing.
• Microwave-assisted drying of leather and clay.
• Microwave-assisted packaged food sterilization.
• Microwave-assisted curing of marble resin coatings.
• Microwave manufacturing of abrasive pieces for marble polishing.
• Rice and soil microwave disinfection.
• Micro-manufacturing of metallic and ceramic parts.

GEM offers consulting services for analysis and design of microwave heating systems, for both static, batch or continuous processes, with the aim of joining minimization of energy cost and optimal quality in the final product.

Microwave tunnel for leather drying