Results Concerning the Optimization of Factors that Interfere in the Drying Process of Skins in Microwave Field

Abstract

A full factorial design was coupled with numerical simulation in order to find the best position of the dielectric material inside the applicator. The considerate dielectric material processed in this study is leather. The design performed using Minitab software, took into account 3 factors with 3 different levels. In order to point out the thermal and electrical field values during the process were performednumerical computations using the Comsol Multiphysics software.

Keywords

• full factorial design
• Comsol Multiphysics
• thermal field
• leather