Capacitance-based sensing of material moisture in bulk solids: Applications and restrictions

Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering

Volumn 20 LNEE, Issue , 2008, Pages 235-248

  Fuchs, Anton ^a   Zangl, Hubert ^a   Holler, Gert ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

bulk solids; capacitive sensing; Moisture measurement; planar setup

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; MOISTURE METERS;

BULK SOLIDS; CAPACITIVE SENSING; ELECTRODE DISTANCES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS METHOD; MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE MEASUREMENT; PLANAR SETUP; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

MOISTURE;

EID: 79956307092     PISSN: 18761100     EISSN: 18761119     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-79590-2_16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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