IMPI's 44th Annual Symposium

Denver, Colorado, USA

July 14-16, 2010

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2010 Program

The 44th Annual Microwave Power Symposium will be held July 14-16, 2010 at the Curtis Hotel located in downtown Denver, Colorado, USA. Online registration is now available.

PROCEEDINGS: Participants may submit a 4-6 page summary paper for publication in the Symposium Proceedings (ISSN 0832-7832), which will be published in July 2010. Authors: Download Instructions for submission. Summary papers due July 15, 2010.

LOCATION: Denver is the capital of Colorado, in the USA. The city and its surrounding area boast breathtaking views of the Rocky Mountains, outdoor venues and a wide range of cultural activities. The symposium will be held in the heart of downtown at the Hotel Curtis, two short blocks from shopping, dining, entertainment and culture.

44th Annual Microwave Symposium
Schedule of Events

Wednesday, July 14

8:00 a.m. Short Course A: Nuts and Bolts of Microwave Testing

Proper testing of microwaveable products (foods, packaging, cookware, etc.) is essential in order to avoid consumer complaints, hazards and injuries. You'll learn from an instructor with more than 35 years of experience in this field consulting with many companies:

• How to select and prepare ovens for microwave testing
• Why it's important to run "normal and abusive" tests
• How to achieve statistically meaningful results
• How to write a preparation label
• And much more!

9:30 a.m. Tour Departs: US Mint AM Tour (returns by 12:00 p.m.)

10:00 a.m. Tour Departs: National Institute of Standards and Technology

1:30 p.m. Tour Departs: US Mint PM Tour (returns by 4:00 p.m.)

5:00 p.m. Grand Opening of the 2010 Exhibition

Thursday, July 15

8:00 a.m. Plenary Keynote I: Microbiological Safety Aspects of Microwavable Foods
Dr. Paul Hall, President, AIV Microbiology and Food Safety Consultants, LLC

9:30 a.m. Microwave Food Safety Panel
Sponsored by: TrueCookPlus® and Food Safety Chain Company
Chair: Bob Schiffmann, RF Schiffmann and Associates
Panelists:
- Dr. William K. Shaw: Director USDA/FSIS/OPPD?Policy Operations Division
- Bob Garfield: Sr. Vice President: American Frozen Food Institute
- Steve Vlock: ConAgra Foods: Quality Manager: Frozen Platform RQI
The safety of microwaved foods is of increasing concern to consumers and the government. The potential for food-borne illness has become especially important due to the advent of Not-Ready-to-Eat (NRTE) microwavable products. The panel consists of representatives of the USDA-FSIS, the American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI) and a major food processor.

11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions:

A. Process Development
Chair: Shaojin Wang, Washington State University

• "Treatment protocol development for disinfesting legumes using radio frequency energy." S. Wang, G. Tiwari, S. Jiao, J.A. Johnson, J. Tang, Washington State Univ.
• "Isothermal Microwave and Microwave-Convection Drying of Olive Pomace." R. R. Milczarek, T. H. McHugh, USDA-ARS
• "Microwave-assisted extraction of carbohydrates from corn pericarp (a byproduct from corn starch production)." T. Yoshidaa, S. Tsubakia, Y. Teramotob and J-I Azumaa, Kyoto Univ.
• "Sterilization of Salmon Fillets in Sauce Packaged in 8-oz Pouches with a Semi-Continuous Microwave Processing System." F. Liu, Z. Tang, G. Mikhaylenko, J.H. Shin, A. R. Han, F. Resurreccion, J. Tang*, Washington State Univ.

B. Sponsor Paper:
“Statistical Analysis and Product Design Recommendations of Packaged Foods’ Microwave Cooking Instructions Food Safety Thermal Profile.” by Steve Drucker, Microwave Science JV LLC. Immediately followed by:
Simulation I
Chair: Juming Tang, Washington State University

• "Sensitivity study of dielectric properties of salmon fillet in Alfredo sauce packed in 8-oz pouches using four-cavity microwave system model implemented through FDTD." F. Resurreccion, F. Liu G. Mikhaylenko, Z. Tang, and J. Tang, Washington State Univ.
• "Effect of Magnetron Frequency on Heating Pattern in Domestic Oven." S. Birla, K. Pitchai, J.Subbiah, D. Jones, Univ. of Lincoln Nebraska
• "Numerical Optimisation of Microwave-Assisted Ball Grid Array Package Encapsulation Processes." T. Tilford¹, M. Ferenets², R Adamietz³, S. Pavuluri⁴, J. E. Morris⁵, M. P. Y. Desmulliez⁴ and C. Bailey¹, ¹Univ. of Greenwich, ²Eesti Innovatsiooni Inst, ³Fraunhofer Inst, ⁴Heriot-Watt Univ., ⁵Portland State Univ.

12:15 p.m. Exhibitor Luncheon and IMPI Business Meeting

1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:

A. Food Quality and Safety
Chair: Lihan Huang, USDA Agricultural Research Service

• "Clear etalon windows for domestic microwave ovens: analysis and measurement." R.L. Boxman, E. Yaari, V. Dikhtyar, E. Gidalevich, V. Zhitomirsky, Tel Aviv Univ.
• "Heating Performance Assessment of Domestic Microwave Ovens." K. Pitchai, S. Birla, J. Subbiah, D. Jones, Univ. of Lincoln Nebraska
• "Elimination of Salmonella in Microwaveable Non-Ready-to-Eat Meats by Power-Controlled Microwave Heating." L. Huang, USDA-ARS

B. BioEnergy
Chair: Dorin Boldor, Louisiana State University

• Invited Paper: "Microwave Pyrolysis and Gasification of Biomass and Solid Waste Materials." Roger Ruan, X. Wang, Y. Cheng, Y. Wan, X., Y. Liu, and P. Chen, Center for Biorefining and Dept. of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering Univ. of Minnesota
• "Microwave-assisted biorefinery: high-temperature conversion of woody waste." A. Sobhy and J. Chaouki, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
• "Microwave-assisted autohydrolysis for refinery of local food processing biomass in Japan." S. Tsubaki, J-I Azuma, Kyoto Univ.
• "Microwave Modification of Paulownia Wood for Increasing Permeability." G. Torgovnikov and P. Vinden, Univ. of Melbourne

3:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions:

A. Industrial Applications/System Design
Chair: Ben Wilson, PSC Inc.

• Invited Paper: "Industrial Applications of Microwave Energy Combined with Conventional Frying and Drying Process Developed in Taiwan." R-C Huang, C-Y Chuang, Y-T Tsai and B. Barry Yang, Food Industry Research And Development Institute
• "Microwave-assisted gluing of cellulose-based products: modeling and experimental results." P. Veronesi, C. Leonelli, S. Camatti1, Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• "High Power Variable Attenuators for Industrial Microwave Processing." J.F. Gerling, Gerling Applied Engineering, Inc.
• "Use of Continuous Microwave Sterilization for the Commercial Production of Shelf-Stable Pumpable Food Products." D. Parrott, Industrial Microwave Systems

B. Chemistry & Novel Applications I
Chair: Cristina Leonelli, Universita degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

• Invited Paper: "Microwave saccharification of cellulosic biomass using solid catalyst." Hideoki Fukushima, Fukushima Research Group, Frontier Research Center, Toyota Central R&D Labs., Inc
• "Hydrogen production from Tetralin over microwave-accelerated Pt-supported carbonaceous materials." Y. Suttissawat¹, S. Horikoshi², Hideki Sakai^1,2 and Masahiko Abe^1,2, ¹Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry in Faculty of Science, Tokyo Univ. of Science; ²Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo Univ. of Science
• "Using a Microwave Resonant Cavity to Study Hydrogen Bonding at Phase Transition in H2O and D2O." J. N. Dahiya¹ and J. A. Roberts², ¹Department of Physics, Southeast Missouri State Univ., ²Department of Physics, Univ. of North Texas
• "Saponification Reaction of Ethyl Acetate with Sodium Hydroxide in Microwave heated Tubular Flow Reactor." S. Kuslu, Ataturk Univ.

5:00 p.m. Poster Session and Exhibition

Friday, July 16

8:00 a.m. Plenary Keynote Session II
The Interaction of Electromagnetic Fields with Materials from 1 MHz to 1 Terahertz: Overview of Applications Past, Present, and Trends for the Future
Dr. James Baker-Jarvis, Project Leader, Advanced Materials Project NIST Electromagnetics Divsion

9:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

A. Simulation II
Chair: Paolo Veronesi, University degli Studi di Modena

• Invited Paper: "Modeling and Optimization of Systems for Microwave Thermal Processing - Comtemporary State-of-the-Art." Vadim Yakovlev, Worcester Polytechnick Institute
• "Radio-frequency assisted packed bed extraction of an anticancer agent: mathematical modeling and sensitivity analysis." M. Izadifara and O.D. Baikab, Univ. of Saskatchewan

B. Materials Processing
Chair: Juming Tang, Washington State University

• "A New Method for Joining of Stainless Steel through Microwave Energy." S. M. S., A K Sharma and P. Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
• "Green Synthesis of Magnetically soft Hexaferrites." Geetanjali¹, C. L. Dube¹, R. K. Kotnala², S. C. Kashyap¹ and D. Agarwal³, ¹Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, ²National Physical Laboratory, ³Penn State Univ.
• "Investigation of Microwave Sintering on the Performance of Spray-on Ultrasonic Transducers for High Temperature Ultrasonic Non-destructive Evaluation." C.T. Searfass¹, A. Baba¹, B.R. Tittmann¹, D. K. Agrawal², ¹Engineering Nanostructure Characterization Center, ²Penn State Univ.
• "Microwave Heating Behavior of Fine Stainless Steel Powders in H-field." S. Toyota¹, H. Fujiwara², Kei Ameyama², D. Agrawal³, ¹Graduate Student, Ritsumeikan Univ., ²Faculty of Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan Univ. ³Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State Univ.
• "Inducing Fractures and Increasing Cleat Apertures in Bituminous Coal via Application of Microwave." H. Kumar, D. Agrawal, J. P. Mathews, Pennsylvania State Univ.

11:00 a.m. Concurrent Sessions

A. Food Processing
Chair: Bob Schiffmann, RF Schiffmann & Associates

• "A Microwave Processing System for the Manufacture of Muesli (Granola)." R. F. Schiffmann, R. F. Schiffmann Associates, Inc.
• "Success Story: Microwave Cooking of Desserts in Pots." J-P Bernard, Sairem
• "Paddy Gelatinization and Drying using Radio Frequency Energy." S. Birla, J. Subbiah, K. Singaravadivel, Univ. of Lincoln Nebraska

B. Chemistry & Novel Applications II
Chair: Satoshi Horikoshi, Tokyo University of Science

• "Microwave Pyrolysis of Sol-Gel prepared precursors for Synthesis of Silicon Carbide Nanoparticles." J. A. Aguilar-Garib, K. A. Cabriales-Gomez, N. Villalon-Juárez, Univ. Autonoma de Nuevo León
• "Numerical simulation of a microwave reactor used in synthesis of nanoparticles." C. Leonelli, A. Rizzuti, R. Rosa, A. Corradi, P. Veronesi, Univ. of Modena and Reggio Emilia
• "Effect(s) of microwaves in nanoparticle synthesis." Satoshi Horikoshi¹, Hideki Abe², Kanjiro Torigoe², Hideki Sakai², Masahiko Abe² and Nick Serpone³, ¹Research Institute for Science and Technology, Tokyo Univ. of Science, ²Department of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tokyo Univ. of Science, ³Gruppo Fotochimico, Dipartimento di Chimica Organica

12:00 p.m. Lunch Break (On your own. Exhibits/Posters open)

1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions

A. Dielectric Properties
Chair: Samir Trabelsi, US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Center

• Invited Paper: "Near-Field Probes using Negative Material Particles." Omar M. Ramahi, M. S. Boybay and Z. Ren, Univ. of Waterloo
• Invited Paper: "Extending Microwave Permittivity Measurement Techniques to Low Frequencies," Philip Bartley(1) and Shelley Begley(2), 1)Innovation Measurement Solutions, 2)Agilent Technologies
• "Microwave Dielectric Properties of Ground and Whole-Muscle Chicken Meat and Correlations with Quality Attributes." S. Trabelsi and D. D. Samuel, USDA-ARS
• "Microwave Sensing of Density and Moisture in Granular Materials." S. O. Nelson and S. Trabelsi, USDA-ARS

B. Materials Processing
Chair: TBA

• "Microwave heating behaviors of raw materials for pig iron making." Miyuki Hayashi¹, Masahiro Hotta¹ and Kazuhiro Nagata², ¹Tokyo Institute of Technology, ²Tokyo Univ. of the Arts
• "Microwave Processing of Semiconductors: New phases with novel applications." S. C. Kashyap and C. L. Dube, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• "Hydrogen Recovery from Spacecraft Sabatier Waste Methane using Microwave Plasma Pyrolysis." R. R. Wheeler, Jr., N. M. Hadley and R.W. Dahl, UMPQUA Research Company
• "Energetic Balance of Microwave-Based Curing of Composite Materials." M. Danilov, M. Meyer, M. Kleineberg, Institute of Composite Structures and Adaptive Systems, German Aerospace Center

3:00 p.m. Symposium Concludes

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2010 Symposium Program Poster Session Participants:

• "Electrocatalysts of Pt-TiO2 prepared by Sol-Gel and Microwave-assisted polyol methods for the oxygen reduction reaction in 0.5 M H2SO4." M.A. Garcia-Contreras, S.M. Fernandez-Valverde, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares, Depto. de Quimica
• "Electromagnetic Modeling of a Microwave Irradiation Used for Methane." M. Kumja, T.S. Tan, B.C. Khoo, S. Falser, A.C. Palmer, National Univ. of Singapore
• "Microwave irradiation in the sintering and treatment of glasses, glass ceramics and their composites." O. V. Kharissova, B. I. Kharisov, J. J. Ruíz Valdes, O. N. Velychko, U. Ortiz Mendez, Autonomous Univ. of Nuevo Leon
• "Development and Evaluation of Enhanced Coatings for Directed-Energy Decontamination." B. Salter, B. Ashley, R. Nichols, J. Owens, Air Force Research Laboratory, Applied Research Associates, Inc
• "Electrocatalysts of Pt-TiO2 prepared by Sol-Gel and Microwave-assisted polyol methods for the oxygen reduction reaction in 0.5 M H2SO4." M.A. Garcia-Contreras; S.M. Fernandez-Valverde, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Nucleares
• "Microwave installation for percent determination of extracted crude oil composition." G. A. Morozov, O. G. Morozov, R. R. Samigullin, R. C. Galimov, D. R. Khaziev, Kazan State Technical Univ.
• "Elaboration and modeling of homogeneous microwave field by water load containers." A.J. Kovacs; E. Lakatos, M. Nemenyi, Univ. of West Hungary
• "Microwave Dielectric Method for Moisture Sensing in Almonds." S. Trabelsi and S. O. Nelson, USDA-ARS
• "Study of Industrial Microwave Extraction Technology." Y-M Fan, Y-H Chen, C-Q Cai, Y-Y Zhou, Guangzhou Univ.
• "Determining radio frequency heating uniformity in mixed beans for disinfestations." S. Jiao, J. Tang, J.A. Johnson, G. Tiwari, S. Wang, Washington State Univ.
• "Analysis of the specific energy in microwave drying of prickly pear cactus cladodes." R. Lopez, A. De Ita, M. Vaca, A. Lizardi, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Azcapotzalco
• "Design of hemisphere-shaped cavity with multi-slotted array for defrost application." S. Sim, H. Choi, W. Kim, LG Electronics, Home Appliance Research Laboratory
• "Stability of anthocyanins subjected to microwave energy treatment." R. H. Cadena¹, A. E. Ortega Regules¹, J. S. Welti Chanes², J. D. Lozada Ramirez¹, Cecilia Anaya de Parrodi*1., 1Department of Chemical-Biological Sciences at Universidad de las Americas-Puebla, ²Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
• "Dielectric Properties of Sea Cucumber (Stichopus Japonicus) and Model Food at Radio and Microwave Frequencies." H. Cong, F. Liu, Z. Tang, J. Tang, C. Xue, Washington State Univ.
• "Unstable states of BxGa1-xNyAs1-y alloys." S. F. Diaz Albarran, P. R. Peralta and E. C. Vasco Mendez, Instituto Politecnico Nacional
• "Dielectric properties of banana peel, pulp and fruit from 300 to 3000 MHz." J. Ortego and D. Boldor, Louisiana State Univ. Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department
• "Dielectric-Based Method for Determining Moisture Content and Bulk Density of Peanut Hull Pellets." S. Trabelsi, A. M. Paz, and S. O. Nelson, USDA-ARS
• "Microwave effect on Saccharomyces cerevisiae cell membrane permeability." A. Szerencsi, J. Erdei, E. Lakatos, A. J. Kovacs, M. Nemenyi, Univ. of West Hungary, Karolina Hospital
• "Statistical Analysis and Product Design Recommendations of Packaged Foods' Microwave Cooking Instructions Food Safety Thermal Profile." S. Drucker, Microwave Science JV LLC
• "Acetylation of banana (Musa paradisiaca L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) starches using a microwave heating procedure and iodine as catalyst: Molecular, rheological and structural studies." M. M. Sanchez-Rivera, L. A. Bello-Perez, M. C. Nunez-Santiago, S. Almanza-Benites¹, Center of Development of Biotic Products of National Polytechnic Institute ¹Zacatepec Institute of Technology
• "Prediction of glycemic index of pound cakes baked in two-cycle microwave-toaster." M. E. Sanchez-Pardo¹, A. Ortiz-Moreno¹, H. Necoechea Mondragon, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Departamento de Ingenieria Bioquímica
• "Microwave pretreatment for reducing oil uptake of potato chips." D. Meneses-Guarneros and M.E. Sosa-Morales, Universidad de las Americas Puebla
• "Photoluminescence study of nanoparticles PbxSr1-xTiO3 obtained by microwave hydrothermal method." S. A. Eliziario, UNESP- Institute of Chemistry"
• Concepts of Microwave Heating Furnaces for Pig Iron Making." Kazuhiro Nagata¹, Miyuki Hayashi² and Motoyasu Sato³, ¹Tokyo Univ. of the Arts, ²Tokyo Institute of Technology, ³Nuclear Institute of Fusion Science
• "Heating pattern of white bread loaf under combined radio frequency and hot air treatment." Yanhong Liu¹, Gopal Tiwari², Shaojin Wang², Juming Tang²,*, Zhihuai Mao¹, ¹China Agricultural Univ., ²Washington State Univ.
• "Developing postharvest disinfestation treatments for dried fruits using radio frequency energy" Bandar Alfaifi, Shaojin Wang, Juming Tang, Washington State University

2010 IMPI Symposium Committee

Program Co-Chair: Juming Tang, Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
Washington State Univ.
+1 509-335-2140
jtang@wsu.edu

Program Co-Chair: Samir Trabelsi, Ph.D.
US Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Center
Samir.Trabelsi@ARS.USDA.GOV

Area 1. Food Applications

Section Chair: Lihan Huang, Research Food Technologist
USDA Agricultural Research Service
+1 215-233-6552
Lihan.huang@ars.usda.gov

Amy Lawson, Senior Product Performance Technician
General Mills-Baking Division
amy.lawson@genmills.com

Steve Vlock, Manager of Quality
ConAgra
Steve.vlock@conagrafoods.com

Lisa Johnson, Product Performance Scientist
General Mills
Lisa.johnson@genmills.com

Tammie Lively, Research Scientist
Nestle
Tammie.lively@us.nestle.com

Mawele Shamaila, Research Scientist
Nestle
Mawele.shamaila@rdsn.nestle.com

Area 2. Food/Agricultural Processing and Bio-Energy

Section Chair: Dorin Boldor, PhD, Assistant Professor
Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
LSU Agricultural Center and Louisiana State Univ.
+1 225 578 7762
dboldor@agcenter.lsu.edu

Samir Trabelsi, Research Scientist
USDA ARS, Athens, GA 30605
Samir.Trabelsi@ARS.USDA.GOV

Shaojin Wang, Research Assistant Professor
Biological Systems Engineering
Washington State Univ.
Shaojin_wang@wsu.edu

Pedro Fito, Director
Institute of Food Engineering for Development
pfito@tal.upv.es

Area 3. General industrial applications and system designs (including simulation)

Section Chair: Ben Wilson, Sales manager
PSC, INC
+1 216-531-3375
bwilson@pscrfheat.com

Neal Cooper, Principle
Formative Solutions
Neal.cooper@formativesolutionsllc.com

Paolo Veronesi, Ph. D
Facolta' di Ingegneria Universita' degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia
paolo.veronesi@unimore.it

Jean-Paul Bernard, Directeur General
Sairem S.A.S
commercial@sairem.com

Robert F. Schiffmann, President
R.F. Schiffmann Associates
microwaves@juno.com

Area 5. Chemistry and other novel applications

Section Chair: Satoshi Horikoshi, Associate Professor
Tokyo Univ. of Science
Research Institute for Science and Technology
+81 4-7122-1659
E-mail: horikosi@rs.noda.tus.ac.jp

Rajender Varma, Chemist
US EPA, National Risk Management Research Laboratory
+1 513-487-2701
Varma.Rajendar@epa.gov