Industrial Moisture and Humidity Measurement A Practical Guide

Written by experts with over 20 years of experience in the field, this one-stop guide covers all aspects, including both the theory and a wealth of practical know-how. As such, it includes guidelines on the installation, realization of standards for absolute and relative humidity, verification and traceability measurements, equipment calibration methods and the latest research developments. As a result, the scientist or engineer has all the information required for accurate, reliable, economically viable and efficient moisture measurement.

Backed by numerous case studies, this practical book serves the needs of those working in the industry tasked with performing or developing new techniques and processes for moisture and humidity measurements.

1. Water - building block of development

2. Terms and Definitions of Thermodynamics

3. Water in solid, gaseous and liquid Materials

4. Humidity Measurement in gaseous, solid and liquid media

5. Methods for the selection of measurement processes and instrumentation

6. Definitions of quality assurance and control of Moisture and Humidty Measurements

7. Moisture and Humidity Measurement in the Environment, Meteorology and Agriculture

8. Applications in the Food Industry

9. Moisture and Humidity Measurements in Industrial Plants

10. Applications in the Chemical, Pharmaceutical and Plastics Industries

11. Applications in the Paper and Board Industry

12. Applications in the Building Industries

13. Moisture and Humidity Measurements under laboratory conditions

14. Applications in the space industries

Appendix 1: Tables and Conversions, SI Units

Appendix 2: Thermodynamics Tables and Data

Appendix 3: Constants and Parameters

Appendix 4: Data of commonly used materials

Appendix 6: Index of commonly used symbols

Dr. Roland Wernecke has been the manager of a company which develops and manufactures moisture measurement devices for industry and laboratories for over 20 years. He obtained his academic degrees from the University of Dresden and the Academy of Science, Germany. Dr. Wernecke is a member of numerous technical committees and organisations for standards. He advises companies and organizes seminars and workshops on moisture and humidity measurement for industry and research. He is involved in numerous cooperations with institutes and universities in the development of new methods for the measurement of moisture and humidity in gases, liquids and solid materials.

Jan Wernecke is a physicist at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the German national metrology institute, where he is currently finishing his PhD thesis. He studied physics at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, at the Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, and at the Australian National University in Canberra. He gained experience in the fundamentals and practical aspects of moisture and humidity measurement during various project works, for example on ambient climate monitoring and on the survival of organisms in a simulated Mars atmosphere.