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Introduction 41<br />

production requirements: management control becomes difficult, subjective <strong>and</strong><br />

expensive.<br />

1.6 Electrical Volumetric Heating<br />

By electrical means, volumetric heating is possible wherein all the infinitesimal<br />

elements constituting the volume <strong>of</strong> a workload are each heated individually, ideally<br />

at substantially the same rate.<br />

The heat energy injected into the material is<br />

transferred through the surface electromagnetically, <strong>and</strong> does not flow as a heat<br />

flux, as in conventional heating. The rate <strong>of</strong> heating is no longer limited by thermal<br />

diffusivity <strong>and</strong> surface temperature, <strong>and</strong> the uniformity <strong>of</strong> heat distribution is<br />

greatly improved.<br />

Heating times can <strong>of</strong>ten be reduced to less than 1% <strong>of</strong> that<br />

required using conventional techniques, with effective energy variation within the<br />

workload less than 10%.<br />

Any material can be heated directly by electrical volumetric heating provided<br />

that it is neither a perfect electrical conductor nor a perfect insulator, implying that<br />

the range extends from metals to dielectric materials which could be considered<br />

quite good insulators.<br />

1.7 Volumetric <strong>and</strong> Conventional Heating: a<br />

Comparison<br />

That a fixed continuous power dissipation into a dry, passive workload causes<br />

its average temperature to rise linearly with time is <strong>of</strong> fundamental importance,<br />

distinguishing it from conventional heating, in which the average temperature <strong>of</strong><br />

the workload asymptotically reaches the oven temperature, <strong>and</strong> cannot rise above<br />

it.<br />

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