INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE ENGINEERING
From feasibility and lab trials through process development, pilot-scale validation and specialist commercial support.
Since 1987
Industrial microwave development
LAB → COMMERCIAL
Development across
the full scale-up path
Industrial Scale
Experience designing and building microwave systems beyond 100 kW
broad Industrial Experience
Food · Materials
· Chemicals · Manufacturing · Resource Recovery
WHERE ARE YOU IN THE PROCESS?
AMT can help from an early idea or process problem through to a proven concept ready for industrial production.
01
EXPLORE
Is there a real microwave advantage?
02
PROVE
Feasibility, simulation and lab testing.
03
DEVELOP
Engineer the process and applicator.
04
pilot & Scale
Validate power, throughput and pilot operation.
05
Production
Specialist microwave engineering and support.
Real Industrial Microwave Experience
From early-stage process development to commercial operation, AMT has designed and developed microwave systems across a wide range of industrial applications for clients around the world.
Molectra Tyre Recycling
Microwave process development supporting Molectra’s award-recognised waste-tyre resource-recovery technology.
Microwave Butter & Fat Melting
Commercial microwave systems developed for controlled melting of frozen butter and fat blocks in food manufacturing.
Commercial Coffee Roasting
Microwave technology applied in a commercial automated fluid-bed coffee-roasting operation.
DTS Microwave Cattle Stunning System
Microwave system developed with Wagstaff Food Services for rapid, reversible cattle stunning and commercial meat-processing applications.
Is microwave right for your process?
Microwave technology can create significant process advantages - from rapid and selective heating to improved reaction or processing behaviour - but the value depends on the material, process and application.
MICROWAVE MAY OFFER AN ADVANTAGE WHEN:
Volumetric heating could overcome a heat-transfer bottleneck
Selective heating is useful
Rapid heating or response matters
Conventional heating struggles with the material or geometry
A chemical reaction or material transformation could benefit from rapid or selective heating.
Electrification could provide a real process advantage
FACTORS THAT MAY LIMIT THE BENEFIT:
The material couples poorly with microwave energy
Conventional heating already works efficiently and cheaply
The process geometry creates difficult field-control problems
The technical benefit is unlikely to justify the scale-up cost
The first step is understanding the material, the process and what you are trying to improve.
EQUIPPED TO TEST, DEVELOP & SCALE
Microwave Power & Matching
Industrial microwave generators and impedance-matching autotuners across the frequencies and power levels needed for development and scale-up.
Measurement & Analysis
Network analyser, simulation, microwave measurement equipment, instrumentation and process monitoring for testing and optimising real systems.
Applicators & Microwave Hardware
A broad range of stationary, continuous, rotary and specialised applicators, plus waveguide components for rapidly configuring test systems.
Process Hardware & Fabrication
Quartz, silicon carbide, mullite and ceramic process equipment, supported by in-house fabrication for modifying and building development systems.
Need higher power without buying the generator first?
AMT has industrial microwave generators available for development and pilot-scale projects from 1–100 kW at 2.45 GHz, 915 MHz and 922 MHz.
INDUSTRIAL MICROWAVE SPECIALISTS
IN WOLLONGONG, AUSTRALIA
AMT grew out of an industrial microwave research team established at the University of Wollongong in 1987. Today, our Wollongong-based team combines microwave process development with electrical and control engineering, materials expertise and practical fabrication to take industrial microwave ideas from testing through to real systems.
HAVE AN IDEA OR PROCESS YOU WANT TO INVESTIGATE?
Tell us what you're processing, what you're trying to achieve and what you’d like to explore.
We can help identify what is worth investigating and the most useful next step.
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