近年來經專家學者研究，微波熱處理技術有長足進步，並在材料領域上有重大的突破，但目前常見的微波設備仍處於研究或較小型的生產規模。此研究與承德油脂合作，我們以縮短脂化製程之反應時間、減少能源消耗以及原料完整利用作為技術導入重點，期望透過電磁波模擬設計出精確控制之微波系統，以其中高效率的微波腔體形成穩定且適合的電場模態來加速廢食用油的熱處理，更進一步的是走出實驗機台或小型產線，作為業界的領頭羊發展出大型工業量產所需之產線原型機，開創量產型微波應用機台之市場，將微波製程成功推廣到工業生產上，藉此幫助業主降低生產成本。目前，設計出的實驗腔體的阻抗匹配巨有相當大的彈性，除了可以滿足各種實驗條件的設定，例如不同比例的原料、反應溫度、微波功率或是催化物、加速反應的成效非常明顯以外，此阻抗設計僅與液面高度有關與體積無關，這在克服微波穿透力問題上有突破的進展。此外，微波效應一直是我們所感興趣的議題，微波不僅僅提供加熱效果它也產生非熱效應。然而，要回答這個背後的原理與機制，非常不易，仍是物理學的一個大挑戰；因此，本研究將採用有系統的描述此現象，藉由探討相同反應溫度條件下不同微波功率和功率密度對化學反應的影響，並從結果已可間接證實其非熱效應的存在。

While microwave material processing technology has made great progress in recent years, off-the-shelf microwave equipment is still in relatively small production scale. This research cooperates with Chant Oil, striving to shorten the reaction time of esterification and simultaneously reducing energy consumption and waste of raw material, hoping to design a easily controllable and energy saving microwave system which contains a resonator that forms a stable EM mode to accelerate the heat treatment of Waste Cooking Oils through the use of EM simulator, and even further steps away from laboratory-sized experiment, developing a production line prototype required for industrial mass production, being a pioneer that brings microwave technology to the traditional chemical industry, promoting the market of microwave processing system, and finally helps businesses reduce production cost. The designed microwave reactor has great impedance tuning flexibility, being able of adapting to different kinds of experiment condition, e.g. different ratios of raw materials, reaction temperature, microwave power, catalytic materials. The reactor not only shows that microwave assisted experiment is effective, but also boast the impedance design which is only related to liquid level and volume, making a breakthrough in conquering the problem of wave penetration in large scale heating. Microwave-material interaction is always been an issue of interest to us. Microwaves not only provide heating effects, but also produce non-thermal ones. However, it is very difficult to find the principles and mechanisms behind this. It is still a big challenge in physics. This study will systematically discuss this phenomenon by comparing the effect of different microwave power and power density under the same reaction temperature conditions, and the results indirectly shows the existence of microwave non-thermal effect.

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