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Moisture Test Results Don't Always Measure Moisture

Posted by Art Gatenby on Jun 29, 2021 7:00:00 AM

The most popular was to measure include:

  1. Drying the material and measure the weight loss 
  2. Using a calibration and electronic instrument 
  3. Using a titration method such as Karl Fischer

When using these processes, we take for granted that the results will be the product's actual moisture.

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Topics: Evaporation, Moisture Oven Test, Infrared Moisture, Moisture Analysis, Moisture Testing, Karl Fischer Titration, Loss-On-Drying, evaporator oven

Loss-On-Drying Moisture Analysis and Other Moisture Mysteries Part III: Free and Bound Water

Posted by Art Gatenby on Jun 16, 2020 2:35:12 PM

In my previous missive about Loss-On drying, we discussed Vapor Pressure -- because logically it was next. As we continue to explore moisture, we learn how vital vapor pressure is when regarding the quirky issues of free and bound water.

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Topics: Evaporation, Bound Moisture, Free Moisture, Moisture Analysis, Moisture Testing, Karl Fischer Titration, Praxis Moisture Balance, Loss-On-Drying, Moisture, karl fischer moisture, water content measurement

Loss On Drying Moisture Analysis and Other Moisture Mysteries II Vapor Pressure

Posted by Art Gatenby on Apr 30, 2020 3:31:57 PM

A while ago on these pages I agonized about loss-on-drying moisture analysis . As you may recall, my explorations of the drying process overwhelmed me with evaporation concepts , vapor pressure notions, water content complexities and water activity witchcraft, all just to dry something.
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Topics: Evaporation, Moisture Analysis, Moisture Testing, Loss-On-Drying

Loss-On-Drying Moisture Analysis and Other Moisture Mysteries Part 1

Posted by Art Gatenby on Apr 21, 2020 3:52:00 PM

One quiet night, I was musing over moisture analysis and how easy it is to do using loss-on drying. Little did I know what was in store.

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Topics: Evaporation, Moisture Analysis, Moisture Testing, Loss-On-Drying, Moisture, moisture balance, moisture content

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