Rapid Moisture Content Determination of Macadamia Nuts with an Electronic Moisture Meter

Determination of Moisture Content

Drying: moisture measurement at the end of drying is essential to follow up drying course and to decide whether it is achieved or not. On one hand, too long a drying course may have bad consequences for quality and food safety because of unexpected fermentations and mould growth. On the other hand, the next step in the process is storage. Also, drying to a too low moisture content can result in...

Rapid Determination of the Moisture Content of Soils.

A Low Cost Field Usable Portable Digital Grain Moisture Meter with Direct Display of Moisture (%)

Moisture content of grain is one of the important parameters always considered when deciding the quality and price of grain, at the stage of harvesting, storage, processing and marketing. Grain having excess moisture content, if stored for long duration, will spoil due to insect/fungus infestation. Portable, field usable, and easy-to-use direct moisture (%) display Grain Moisture Meter is a nec...

Development of a Rapid Moisture Content Method For Compost Materials

One of the most important design and operating parameters at composting facilities is moisture content. Existing standard gravimetric oven methods required a minimum of 19 hours to complete. In this study, by reducing the amount of sample, the time required to complete a standard gravimetric oven method was reduced to nine hours. A new infrared moisture balance method was also developed that re...

Soil Moisture Content

The assessment of soil moisture content and surface roughness from remotely sensed data is of primary importance for improving agricultural techniques of conservation farming such as yield forecasts, scheduling irrigations, fertilization. SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) remotely sensed data may provide a powerful tool for indirectly retrieving these agricultural surface parameters over large are...