Sensing pulverized material mixture proportions by resonant cavity measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1201-1204

  Nelson, Stuart O ^a   Kraszewski, Andrzej W ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal; Dielectric properties; Limestone; Mixtures; Permittivity; Resonant cavity measurements; Sensing

Indexed keywords

PULVERIZED MATERIAL SENSING;

CAVITY RESONATORS; COAL; LIMESTONE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWDERS;

PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0032178589     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/19.746583     Document Type: Article

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