Conveyer system and measuring device for determining water content of a construction material
AssigneeTroxler Electronic Laboratories, Inc.
InventorsWewage Hiran Linus Dep, Robert Ernest Troxler
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Abstract
A system is provided. The system includes a conveyor apparatus configured for conveying a material and a water content measurement system positioned about the conveyor apparatus for determining water content in the material. A dimension characteristic measurement system for detecting one or more dimension characteristics of the material is provided and a computer device is configured to manipulate data received from the water content measurement system and the dimension characteristic measurement system to determine a water content of the material.
Claims12
A method for determining a quantity characteristic of a bituminous material being transported on a conveyor apparatus, the method comprising:
- detecting, using two or more independent techniques, a parameter of water in the material, including:
- detecting a neutron response of bitumen in the material;
- detecting a dielectric parameter of the bituminous material;
- detecting a dimension characteristic of the bituminous material;
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- determining at least one of a water content and a hydrogen content of the bituminous material based on the detected neutron and dielectric parameters of water in the material and outputting the one or more data parameters associated with the bituminous material;
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- determining error corrections associated with chemical composition and corrections to flow variations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.