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Wһаt's tһе main reason חο one һаѕ developed a practical hot water heater tһаt heats water tһе same way a radar oven heats stuff?
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February 12th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
Edit: I think you meant microwave oven, not radar oven. Radar technology uses radio waves which don’t excite water molecules.
Converting electrical energy into microwave energy is not an efficient method for heating water up because there is a lot of losses involved through wire resistance, motors and other types of things. It’s easier and faster to just run current through a wire to heat the water through resistance heating (a large current of electricity through a small wire causes it to heat up).
February 14th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Just to clear a few things up in another answer, microwave ovens were originally called something like radar ovens, for good reasons. The wavelengths are chosen partly because they need to be in a certain range of wavelengths and partly because of international spectrum allocations, so at least some radar (S band) is at similar wavelengths around 2.45GHz.
In a microwave oven, the magnetron that converts electricity to microwave radio energy that heats the oven is about 70% efficient, so these losses are the main reason it is not used. Even if the waste heat was somehow taken to the water, it is no more effective than a resistive heater, so extra complexity for no particular gain. Microwave heating is by dielectric heating. Efficiencies claimed in a microwave oven are mostly due to less wastage of heat as compared to a gas or element heater style of cooker, as well as faster cooking times in certain cases. They are not a more efficient way of heating water. Put a 1 liter container of water in the oven, measure the temperature, then measure how long to boil it. Calculate the energy for that temperature change in 1 liter of water, and the extra heat to boil it, and express energy as Wh rather than Joules. It will be something like your oven’s rating = 700W x the time taken. Most likely 700W as that is what ovens tend to be rated at (look on the nameplate information). They use maybe 1100W to get that 700W.
An efficient method of heating hot water through electrical energy is to use a heat pump (reverse cycle refrigeration style). This can be more than twice as efficient as a resistive heater, but needs the outside air to be a suitable temperature, usually above freezing. Simply put, a heat pump uses its energy to make heat flow uphill.
February 15th, 2009 at 2:29 am
Immersion heaters work at 100% efficiency and cost least.
Heat pumps can transfer more heat but capital cost and maintenance are high.