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Seichi Okamura, Nobuhito Tsukamoto

New Moisture Sensor with Microstripline for High Moist Leaves in Green Tea Production

Keywords: high moisture content, microstripline, ratio of attenuation and phase shift

This paper describes a new sensor for the production of green tea. It can measure the moisture content as high as 160 to 300% on dry basis by use of microwave at 3GHz. The wave traveling down along a microstripline detects the information on the moisture contents of the green tea leaves overlaid on the microstripline. The moisture content of the leaves is calculated from two signals of the ratio of attenuation and phase shift of the waves traveling over the microstripline. The error of the measurement was about 3% of the readings.

tm – Technisches Messen, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 0171-8096
Volume: 74, 05/2007
Pages: 275 - 279

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