Mass flowmeter for screw conveyors based on capacitive sensing

Conference Record - IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Fuchs, Anton ^a   Zangl, Hubert ^a   Brasseur, Georg ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Bulk materials transportation; Capacitive sensing; Screw conveyor

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLOWMETERS; SENSORS;

BULK MATERIALS TRANSPORTATION; CAPACITIVE SENSING; MASS FLOW; MASS FLOWMETERS;

SCREW CONVEYORS;

EID: 34648824876     PISSN: 10915281     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/imtc.2007.379169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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