Microwave–assisted processing can be applied to homogeneous or heterogeneous systems of reaction in gas, liquid or solid phase. Within the vegetal extraction, microwaves bring a large amount of energy inside the vegetal or biological cell to extract the interest compounds without degrading their properties.
The microwave equipment developed by SAIREM allows the scale-up of results from laboratory scale - from a few grams up to industrial scale - passing by pilot scale, with applications in chemistry, pharmaceutics, biotechnology, mining, the synthesis of nanoparticles and scientific research. The equipment has built-in meters for the direct reading of forward and reflected power, allowing the correct estimation of the energy absorbed by the treated sample, and online product sampling.