Determination of Moisture Content in Synthetic Moulding Sand on the Grounds of Relative Permittivity Measurement

Abstract

The presented research was aimed at searching for an exact and effective method of determining moisture content in traditional moulding sands. By measuring resonance frequency and quality factor of a waveguide resonance cavity, relative permittivity was determined for different synthetic moulding sands. Analysis of the presented results confirms a linear relation between relative permittivity values and moisture content values in the selected traditional moulding sands. The obtained linear relationship can be used as a reference characteristic for evaluation of humidity of moulding sand.

Keywords

• moisture content
• moulding sands
• relative permittivity
• microwaves