Patent ID: 8242421

Claim:
A dual microwave heating system for heating a heating media and domestic hot water, the microwave heating system comprises: an enclosure; at least one tank located within said enclosure; at least one heating rod having a hollow interior extending from a magnetron chamber within said enclosure into said at least one tank, said at least one heating rod includes at least one heat absorbing media within said hollow interior of said at least one heating rod; means including at least one magnetron located in said magnetron chamber for directing microwave energy into said at least one heat absorbing media, and wherein said at least one heat absorbing, media heats said at least one heating rod, and wherein said at least one heating rod heats said heating media and said domestic hot water; at least one heating media inlet and at least one heating media outlet in said at least one tank for conveying said heating media into and out of said at least one tank; at least one domestic hot water inlet and at least one domestic hot water outlet in said at least one tank for conveying a domestic hot water into and out of said at least one tank; wherein said heating media and said domestic hot water do not comingle; wherein said at least one heating, media inlet operates independent from said at least one domestic hot water inlet; and wherein said at least one heating media outlet operates independent from said at least one domestic hot water outlet, and thereby forming said dual microwave heating system for heating said heating media and domestic hot water.