The AMPERE Newsletter appears quarterly and covers short topical articles written by experts in the field. Typically it also includes a profile, conference reports, advertisements, a calendar of events and news items on various aspects of radio frequency and microwave energy usage in the ISM frequency band, covering topics broadly from 1 MHz to 30 GHz, although higher frequencies have also been covered. It also highlights on promising new research developments to emanate from academe and industry.

Issue 65, published in July 2010.   Editorial. The Scale-Up of Microwave-Assisted Processes. CETIAT: The Partner of Heating, Ventillation and Air Conditioning Industries. News and Events.

Editorial

This issue is delighted to welcome two colleagues from France who describe their involvement with RF and Microwaves at their respective bases.
Dr Marilena Radoiu who just over a year ago joined SAIREM, describes the scale up of microwave assisted processes. Specifically, she highlights the LABOTRONTM for laboratory scale experimentation and the microwaveassisted 915 MHz installation both for extraction and synthesis with Batch & Continuous flow reactors.
In a similar vain Dr Jean Francois Rochas describes their long involvement at CETIAT in facilitating the technology transfer of industrial processes utilising RF and microwaves. Two projects are highlighted, that of microwave baking of crustless sandwich loaf and a HF vapour pressure timber-drying kiln.
Both colleagues are members of AMPERE’s management Committee elected at the OGM in Karlsruhe.

Ricky Metaxas
Editor
EUG St John’s College
Cambridge UK