Abstract: An apparatus and a method for producing samples of a finely granular and dry material for measuring the residual carbon content thereof. The material is fed by a torque monitored conveyor screw to a measuring chamber and is progressively compacted therein. At an abrupt increase in screw torque feeding of the material ceases yielding a sample in the measuring chamber of a reproducible degree of compaction.

Abstract: An arrangement for measuring the carbon content of fly ash consisting of a modified coaxial resonator including an elongated arch-shaped member and an elongated conductor mounted coaxially therein and a generator for generating vibrations of variable frequency therebetween and a device for measuring attenuations in the vibrations for deriving a measure of the carbon content of ash moving between the arch-shaped member and the elongated member.

Abstract: A microwave measuring device for defining the load of a two-phase flow consisting of solids or liquid particles suspended in a gaseous medium transported in a predetermined direction within a feed duct of electrically conductive materials. Antennae for transmitting and receiving microwaves are penetrating into the feed duct at a predetermined spacing from each other and first and second rods are penetrating into the feed duct ahead of and behind the transmitting and receiving antennae to define, with the feed duct section delimited by them, a resonator. Auxiliary field rods ahead of and behind the first and second field rods short circuit microwaves input into the feed duct section which in consequence of reflection, diffraction or heterodyning have become distorted.

Abstract: An arrangement for measuring the carbon content of fly ash consisting of a modified coaxial resonator including an elongated arch-shaped member and an elongated conductor mounted coaxially therein and means for generating variable frequency vibrations therebetween and means for measuring attenuations in the vibrations for deriving a measure of the carbon content of ash moving between the arch-shaped member and the elongated member.

Abstract: A microwave measuring device for defining the load of a two-phase flow consisting of solids or liquid particles suspended in a gaseous medium transported in a predetermined direction within a feed duct of electrically conductive materials. Antennae for transmitting and receiving microwaves are penetrating into the feed duct at a predetermined spacing from each other and first and second rods are penetrating into the feed duct ahead of and behind the transmitting and receiving antennae to define, with the feed duct section delimited by them, a resonator. Auxiliary field rods ahead of and behind the first and second field rods short circuit microwaves input into the feed duct section which in consequence of reflection, diffraction or heterodyning have become distorted.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for producing samples of a finely granular and dry material for measuring the residual carbon content thereof. The material is fed by a torque monitored conveyor screw to a measuring chamber and is progressively compacted therein. At an abrupt increase in screw torque feeding of the material ceases yielding a sample in the measuring chamber of a reproducible degree of compaction.

Abstract: A method of determining the quantity of particulate matter suspended in a carrier gas in a pipe by measuring the frequency shift over a substantially linear range of an attenuation curve below the cut-off frequency for wave propagation, the curve being derived from measuring the attenuation of an electric field established in a conductive pipe substantially free of wave propagation.