Comparisons of moisture Content of wool in bulk by the Malcam Equipment and the Standard IWTO Procedures

Abstract

The MMA 2020 is the equipment using microwave technology to determine the invoice weight of scoured or carbonized wool and tops. A paper was first presented at the Commercial Technology Forum in Barcelona. It was then published (Report CTF 04). A second one was presented at the Sliver Group in Biella. It was then published (SG Submission 03).

One mill in Belgium currently using this method and their results were used to establish the comparison between these methods to the standard This report has been prepared to provide information to Technical and Commercial delegates to IWTO relevant to the performance of the microwave method for the determination of moisture percentage of scoured and carbonised wools and the calculation of the precision.

Citation

"Comparisons of moisture Content of wool in bulk by the Malcam Equipment and the Standard IWTO Procedures", Bernard Leman, Udi Moshe,Lior Grenstein , Michel Lizin, Submission 01, Sliver Group, IWTO Xi'an Meeting, November 2006