Sweep Frequency Heating based on Injection Locked Magnetron

Abstract

Conventional microwave heating has serious problems such as non-uniform heating and low efficiency. A novel magnetron microwave sweep frequency heating method is proposed to improve microwave heating uniformity. In this method, the frequency-sweeping signal is injected into the magnetron by the injection frequency-locking technique, and the microwave sweep frequency heating of the magnetron is realized. In this paper, a complicated injection frequency locking system is given and analyzed and a multiphysics calculation model based on the finite element method for electromagnetic waves and heat transfer is established. The calculation of microwave sweep frequency heating is realized by the combination of COMSOL and MATLAB. The results show that the sweep frequency heating has an obvious superiority. An experiment is carried out to verify the simulation results. The simulation results are in agreement with the experimental data. Moreover, the effect of sweep bandwidth and sweep interval on heating uniformity is discussed.