INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES

1. INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION OF MICROWAVE TECHNOLOGIES State Scientific Institution “Institute for Single Crystals” and Technological park “Institute for Single Crystals”

2. SSI “Institute for Single Crystals” of NASUDirections of activity new materials and technologies new applications of materials and technologies unique equipment Including: - chemistry - physics - material science - technologies

3. Mission: development and production of innovative technologies and equipment Basic products: technologies and equipment for industrial microwave drying and cleaning Technological park “Institute for SingleCrystals” Market to be served: chemical, pharmaceutical, agricultural, food industry, medicine, ecology, information technologies, aircraft industry etc. Since 2000

4. UNIVERSAL ENERGY SOURCE Domestic application Industrial application Electricity Agriculture Science

5. MICROWAVES AS UNIVERSAL ENERGY SOURCE Industrial ? Domestic (MW oven) MICROWAVES Agricultural ? Science (laboratorial equipment) in progress

6. Products and servicesWhat is the problem? • Energy usage:universal problem for universal sources of energy. • Time:time is money. • Quality:a key factor for market competition.

7. Products and servicesWhat is the product? Heating Drying MW equipment Cleaning Technology of application Concentration Microwaves Additional features

8. Products and Services What is the product? (Case study) Vacuum microwave drying system • Areas of application: • Drying of many solid materials: • chemical and pharmaceutical substances • construction materials • grain (wheat, corn, barley etc.) • fruits and vegetables • foodstuffs • herbage • Concentration of water solutions Pharma-micro

9. Products and servicesWhat are the benefits to users?(Case study) In comparison with existing thermal drying systems microwave one allows • decrease of power consumption by 5 – 20 times • shortening of drying time by 2 – 10 times • selective removal water without destruction of other components • efficient drying of thermally unstable substances, for example, pharmaceutical ingredients, at the room temperature • absence of agglomeration • simultaneous sterilization of products or additional activation of grain depending on technology applied • easy concentration of water solutions at room temperature

10. Key elements: decrease of water boiling point due to vacuum selective evaporation of water without overheating of other components of materials simultaneous heating of whole volume Water evaporates at the room temperature simultaneously within whole volume of material and is removed by vacuum system. Products and servicesHow does it work?(Case study)

11. Products and servicesMicrowave cleaning technology Problem: drying, cleaning and sterilization of glass volumes is time consuming and unreliable. Product: microwave vacuum cleaning technology and equipment. Areas of application: medicine, chemical and pharmaceutical industry. Benefits: • simultaneous drying, cleaning and sterilization • time required is only 5 – 20 min • process at the room temperature • 100% reliability How: technology use microwave plasma at the low pressure

12. Products and Services Microwave Heating Technology Problem:Heating is extremely power consuming process Product: Technology and equipment for microwave heating Areas of application: Chemical and pharmaceutical industry Benefits: - Decrease of power consumption by 5-100 times - Decrease of process time by 2-50 times - Fast optimization of conditions of target product leading to increase of efficiently of production by 2-10 times

13. MANAGMENT Microwave cluster is includes scientists and engineers from SSI “Institute for Single Crystals” of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Technological Park “Institute for Single Crystals”. Search for the best applications SSI “ISC” Application of new technology Development of technology TP “ISC” Development of equipment

14. MANAGMENT Team includes:2 Professors 6 Ph.D. 20 Young researchers and engineers Potentially other researchers from SSI “ISC” can be involved into the project Areas of Activity in MW Science Scientific articles (7 for the last years). Technology 10 patents of Ukraine 2 patents of Russia Equipment 5 experimental 2 industrial

15. Market Analysis • Favorable conditions: • Increase of power price • Increase of requirements for medicine and pharmacy • Strengthening of competition in chemical and pharmaceutical industry due to cheap manpower in China and India • Trends to application of “Green chemistry” and “Green industry”

16. Market Analysis • Potential Customers: • Chemical and pharmaceutical industry - plant - laboratories - any size companies • Medical laboratories • Agricultural enterprises

17. Market Analysis (SWOT) Strengths: - relatively low price - easy to demonstrate advantages - high mobility - customized construction and design Weakness: - require wide advertising and explanation (too new technology for industry) - necessary to change old technology schemes Opportunities: - reconstruction of many chemical and pharmaceutical enterprises - power price Threats: - possibility to reproduce technology and equipment by other companies - possible technical problems with scaling new technologies up for large-capacity production