Why is it important to know moisture content?
Moisture content affects the processibility, shelf-life, usability and quality of a product. Accurate moisture content determination therefore plays a key role in ensuring quality in many industries including Food, Pharmaceuticals and Chemicals.
How can you tell if you have a moisture problem?
Don’t let efflorescence (a powder that crystallizes when exposed to air — looks like salt) fool you into thinking you have mold. This salt-like substance, however, is a sign that there is a moisture problem. This is another high humidity hot spot that can lead to mold problems.
How to determine the moisture content of oil?
Weigh the recipient + product + oil + thermometer and register the initial weight (Wi); Heat up the system (recipient + product + oil + thermometer), until the required temperature shown in Table 2 is reached (approximately 15 minutes). Turn off the heat and wait until the bubbles stop.
How does Mettler Toledo do moisture content determination?
METTLER TOLEDO offers moisture content determination solutions for both the moisture analyzer and the drying oven analysis techniques: Easy-to-use solutions address the most common challenges to ensure you achieve accurate results regardless of which analysis method you use.
Don’t let efflorescence (a powder that crystallizes when exposed to air — looks like salt) fool you into thinking you have mold. This salt-like substance, however, is a sign that there is a moisture problem. This is another high humidity hot spot that can lead to mold problems.
How to understand moisture and selecting the right instrumentation?
So the way to approach moisture in a product, is first to establish if the material exhibits hygroscopic properties. If it is a non hygroscopic material, there is a direct correlation between free moisture and total moisture, so it becomes a matter of practicality as to what type of instrumentation will work the best.
How does moisture content affect the quality of a product?
From biological research organisations, pharmaceutical manufacturers, to food producers and packers, moisture content control greatly influences the physical properties and product quality of nearly all substances and materials at all stages of processing and final product existence. Paul Wesolowski reports.
METTLER TOLEDO offers moisture content determination solutions for both the moisture analyzer and the drying oven analysis techniques: Easy-to-use solutions address the most common challenges to ensure you achieve accurate results regardless of which analysis method you use.