ABSTRACT
Microwave irradiation is a rapid means of material heating for
domestic, industrial, and medical purposes. Microwaves offer a
number of advantages over conventional heating, such as noncon-
tact heating (reduction of overheating of material surfaces), energy
transfer instead of heat transfer (penetrative radiation), material-
selective and volumetric heating, fast start-up and stopping, and,
last but not least, the reverse thermal effect. Moreover, the reduced
time of processing under microwave conditions found for a great
number of chemical reactions was the main reason that microwave
techniques became so attractive for chemists, who, in the last three
decades, have begun to apply this technique as a routine in their
everyday practice [1].