Enwave Corporation

Li Bing Cao

Timothy D Durance

Jun Fu

An apparatus and method for microwave vacuum-drying of organic materials such as food products. The dehydration apparatus () has a vacuum chamber () with an input module () at one end and a discharge module () at the other. The vacuum chamber has access doors () spaced between the input end () and the discharge end () which provide operator and maintenance access. Microwave generators () are mounted on each access door and arranged to radiate through a microwave chamber and microwave-transparent window on the access door into the vacuum chamber. A pair of rollers () in the vacuum chamber rotates the container of organic material () about a horizontal axis, and a chain drive () pulls the containers along the rollers through the vacuum chamber.

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Li Bing Cao