Lanz, Jason E.2014-03-142014-03-141998-03-26etd-32098-121812http://hdl.handle.net/10919/36604Electromagnetic and heat transfer analysis is used to determine possibility of selective heating of nanometer-sized, metallic catalyst particles attached to a ceramic support through microwave irradiation. This analysis is incorporated into a macroscopic heat transfer model of a packed and fluidized catalyst bed heated by a microwave field to predict thermal effects associated with selective heating of the catalyst sites. The model shows a dependence on particle size and microwave frequency on the selective heating of the catalyst sites. The macroscopic thermal effects are shown to be small for a typical experiment. However, changing the support material and catalyst particle size are shown to distinguish the thermal effects associated with selective heating of the metallic catalysts.In Copyrightcatalystmicrowaveselective heatingHeat--TransmissionThesishttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-32098-121812/