Calibration of moisture meter for cereal (wheat) grain, its evaluation & error analysis at 230KHz based on microwave oven techniques

Author

Bansod, Babankumar S. ; Gupta, Sucheta

Author_Institution

Agri Electron. Instrum. Div., Central Sci. Instrum. Organ., Chandigarh, India

fYear

2009

Firstpage

582

Lastpage

585

Abstract

Moisture plays an important role in storage and processing of food grains, cereals and other agricultural products. It is the single most important characteristics of most agricultural products with respect to quality maintenance. This paper describes how to prepare samples for moisture determination, and calibrate a moisture meter for a particular grain. A comparison of Laboratory Developed Moisture Meter (LDMM) with a commercial moisture meter is also presented in this paper in order to evaluate its performance. It also describes the studies carried out for calibration of LDMM using direct technique i.e. microwave technique and its comparison with the commercial moisture meter.

Keywords

agricultural products; calibration; meters; microwave measurement; microwave ovens; moisture measurement; quality control; Cereal grain; LDMM calibration; agricultural products; commercial moisture meter; error analysis; food grains processing; frequency 230 kHz; laboratory developed moisture meter; microwave oven techniques; moisture meter calibration; quality maintenance; Agricultural products; Calibration; Electrical resistance measurement; Electromagnetic heating; Error analysis; Instruments; Laboratories; Microwave ovens; Microwave theory and techniques; Moisture measurement; Grains; Laboratory developed moisture meter (LDMM); Moisture content (MC); commercial moisture meter (CMM); direct method; indirect method; microwave oven technique;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and Optoelectronics Conference (IMOC), 2009 SBMO/IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Belem

ISSN

1679-4389

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5356-6

Electronic_ISBN

1679-4389

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMOC.2009.5427515

Filename

5427515