Microwave Sensor Systems for Food and Beverage Applications
Quality parameters that can be measured:
- Moisture or Other Key Ingredient Content
- Liquid Fill Levels
- Certain Texture Characteristics
Advantages of Microwave Sensing for Food & Beverage Testing:
Non-contact measurements
Real-time monitoring
In-line quality control
Non-destructive
Measures through packaging
Key Microwave Sensor System Components
Antenna
Probe
Analyzer
R180 1-Port 18 GHz Analyzer
1 MHz – 18 GHz
Custom Software
Examples of Measurements
Quality Monitoring
- Reflection phase very sensitive to fill level of liquid in bottle
- Measures through bottle, even optically opaque
Purity Detection
- Reflection amplitude sensitive to proportion of honey vs corn syrup
- Can detect counterfeit honey
How We Can Work Together:
- You bring the problem and RF expertise. We bring the analyzer.
- You bring the problem. We bring the analyzer and RF expertise.