Open-ended coaxial-line permittivity measurements on pulverized materials

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 133-137

  Nelson, Stuart O ^a,b   Bartley Jr , Philip G ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bulk density; Coal; Dielectric properties; Limestone; Microwave measurements; Open ended coaxial line measurements; Particulate materials; Permittivity measurements

Indexed keywords

COAXIAL CABLES; DIELECTRIC MATERIALS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); PERMITTIVITY;

PULVERIZED MATERIALS;

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0031988213     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.728805     Document Type: Article

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