Design and demonstration of a high gain corrugated conical horn antenna centered at 22 GHz with 4 GHz bandwidth is presented for material process monitoring in furnaces. The fabricated antenna is tested in a metal melting furnace. The high temperature RADAR signals demonstrate non-contact level sensing of the molten mass and material property variations with temperature. © 2017 IEEE.

Kavitha Arunachalam

Department of Engineering Design

C V Krishnamurthy

Department Of Physics

Balamurugan T. Sivaprakasam

MELTING FURNACES

Metal melting

Microwave antennas

Process control

Process monitoring

Radar

CORRUGATED CONICAL HORNS

CORRUGATED HORNS

high gain

High temperature

HIGH TEMPERATURE PROCESS

NON-CONTACT

RADAR SIGNALS

Horn antennas

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