Municipal solid waste in situ moisture content measurement using an electrical resistance sensor

Waste Management

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 667-674

  Gawande, Nitin A ^a   Reinhart, Debra R ^a   Thomas, Philip A ^a   McCreanor, Philip T ^b   Townsend, Timothy G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MERCER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GRANULAR MATERIALS; LAND FILL; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; SENSORS;

MOISTURE SENSORS;

SOLID WASTES;

DEGRADATION; LANDFILL; MOISTURE CONTENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; GRAVIMETRY; MEASUREMENT; MOISTURE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 0041382748     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0956-053X(03)00100-4     Document Type: Article

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