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 32 MARCH 2002

Issue 32, published in March 2002, contains the following articles and reports.

Editor's Comment.
Some Distinctive Features of STALAM RF Dryers.
Book Review: 'Handbook of Microwave Technology for Food Applications'.
Free Publications.
News and Events.

Editor's Comments

This issue features one of the most successful companies in the world which manufactures radio frequency equipment for a variety of industrial applications. Alberto Ciscato gives a brief outline of the radio frequency dryers that Stalam s.r.l. markets all over the world.

One would have thought that by now we would be saturated by books which encompass microwave heating, so the appearance of yet another book could be justificably greeted with alarm. However, the major difference with this latest book, entitled Handbook of Microwave Technology for Food Applications and edited by Datta and Anantheswaren, is that it is compiled by food technologists and consists of thirteen chapters written by well known colleagues in the microwave and food processing communities. It is reviewed by John Bows of Unilever on page 3, who thoroughly recommends it.

This issue also includes a list of publications from the UK regarding many electroheat and electricity utilisation processes from our own field of dielectric heating and electromagnetic heating to laser, plasma, electric discharge and many other forms of heating. If a member wishes to receive any of these free of charge, please let the editor know.

Ricky Metaxas
EUG, Cambridge University

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Previous Newsletters: Issue 31, December 2001 , Issue 30, October 2001 , Issue 29, June 2001 , Issue 28, April 2001 , Issue 27, January 2001 , Issue 26, October 2000 , Issue 25, July 2000 , Issue 24, April 2000.

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