METHOD AND DEVICE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF CHARACTERISTIC VALUES, PARTICULARLY OF GRAIN

摘要

A new method is intended to the determination of characteristic values, particularly the moisture determination, of food products susceptible of being conveyed by flowing along a transportation path, particularly grain and transformation products thereof. Food products are conveyed through the electric field of a capacitor arrangement (4), (5), a magnitude affected to the capacitor arrangement is measured and is transformed into a characteristic value. A device for implementing this new method comprises a first unit for transporting the food products through a capacitor arrangement (4), (5), a second unit (7) for measuring a magnitude affectable to the capacitor arrangement and a transformer unit (8), (9) for transforming the measured magnitude into a characteristic value.