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Fig. 14 – Reaction system of continuous flow microwave-assisted and conventional heating.
These apparatus are connected to an electronic research “Development of microwave reac-
control and supervision unit which enables tion units for operation in high pressure and
interaction with, and measurement and high temperature” and “The use of microwave
monitoring of, the variables involved in the technology in: intensification of Hydrotreating
process. A Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) process of middle distillates” were carried out
digitalizes and processes the signal for the mi- in partnership with CENPES/Petrobras.
crowave radiation (transmitted and reflected)
identified by the wave sensors by means of
a computer program. The development and
