Measurement of Evaporation Rates of Different Kind of Aqueous Solutions Under Microwave Irradiation

The evaporation rate of water is, of course, different under the same heating conditions of different aqueous solutions. Under conventional heating conditions, the evaporation rate of water is much higher than the evaporation rate of water of aqueous solutions of different kinds of solute materials, which is well accordance with the classical Raoult's law. The results obtained in this study have clearly shown that the chemical characteristics of dissolved materials in water very seriously affect the evaporation rates of water under the microwave heating. This generally causes contradictory results to Raoult's law and this can be explained with the additional microwave energy absorption by the ionic or molecular solute materials found in the solutions other than the microwave energy absorption by water molecules themselves.