DKV

Dielectric Kit for Vials @2.45GHz

The Dielectric Kit for Vials (DKV) is a new device designed to measure the complex permittivity of a wide range of liquid, granular or powdered materials around the ISM microwave frequency of 2.45 GHz.

DKV is a standalone equipment including all necessary components to perform automatically the generation, control and analysis of microwave signals, accurate calculation of dielectric properties and display of results. Everything in less than 5 seconds!!

Microwaves are emerging as an innovative, cost-effective, and efficient technology in various technological and scientific fields as chemistry, pharmacy, material science, food, agriculture, etc. Consequently, there is an increasing demand for accurate dielectric measurements of materials, to investigate new effective and efficient ways to apply microwave processing to their materials and reactions. Dielectric properties, particularly the loss tangent (imaginary part of the complex permittivity), determine the ability of materials to absorb microwave energy and convert it into heat. DKV is oriented to researchers or specialist that are interested in fast, reliable and traceable data of dielectric properties of materials, and they are not experienced with the use of sophisticated network analysers and microwave measurements.

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A stand-alone instrument for permittivity characterization inside tubes (IEEE TIM, 2019)

We are happy to share our new research describing a novel device for material characterization, “A new stand-alone microwave instrument for measuring the complex permittivity of materials at microwave frequencies,” published in September 2019 in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

The paper presents a portable, user-friendly, and standalone device for complex permittivity characterization, designed for ease of use by non-specialized personnel and versatility across various scenarios. …

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Measurement of Dielectric Properties at temperatures up to 350ºC with DKV

The use of microwaves in fields as communications, radar, medicine, biology, agriculture and industrial processes demands accurate knowledge of the dielectric properties of materials and its variations with respect to many factors.

In particular, monitoring variations of materials dielectric properties with temperature is crucial for many applications, in which it is important to predict the materials performance over the whole working temperature range.

In order to provide a suitable technique, the Dielectric Kit for Vials has been equipped with the necessary components for the dielectric characterization of materials up to 350ºC. …

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