creator Bridges, Jack E. creator Taflove, Allen A system and method for the controlled in situ heat processing of hydrocarbonaceous earth formations involves the application of electromagnetic energy at a selected frequency or at selected frequencies to a waveguide structure formed by electrodes bounding a particular volume of hydrocarbonaceous material. Terminating one end of the structure with different impedances at different times produces electric field standing waves of different respective phase at that end at a selected frequency. Two standing waves substantially 90.degree. out of phase in formations having relatively uniform dielectric properties result in substantially uniform application of heating power if the product of the amplitude-squared of the electric field standing wave and dwell time is substantially the same in each of the two modes. Feeding the line at both ends provides partial offset for attenuation. Various desired controlled heating patterns other than uniform may be effected by utilizing different dwell times or applied fields. Different frequencies provide further flexibility, particularly where the line is terminated differently at the respective frequencies. Energy at the different frequencies may be applied simultaneously. Submitted by Aric Ahrens (ahrens@iit.edu) on 2011-11-15T18:40:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 4498535.pdf: 389002 bytes, checksum: 0ec7dfbd01891a20eafa13dd1a441d1e (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2011-11-15T18:40:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 4498535.pdf: 389002 bytes, checksum: 0ec7dfbd01891a20eafa13dd1a441d1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1984-05-22 IIT Research Institute 2009-05-08 1984-05-22 4,449,585 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2339 en United States Patent Patent reformatted digital application/pdf No Copyright - United States http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/ Open Access