4. Examples of industrial applications

The industrial development of the use of dielectric hysteresis heating was masked and covered by the development of domestic use of microwaves from the 1950s onwards, creating a very wide diversity of uses or situations where it was thought desirable to implement this technology . The polymerization of composite materials was also affected by this development.

The description of the examples of industrial applications presented here is limited to two objectives:

• determine the suitability of dielectric hysteresis heating for specific material properties and transformation parameters;

• describe applications already in the production phase, for which development operations have been completed . The two examples described range from situations where the...