Microwave resonator method of dynamic measurement of mass of the samples of gasifying solid fuel

The paper describes novel contactless method of determining instantaneous gasification rate of solid materials under intensive blowing the reacting (gasified) surface. Method is based on dynamic measurement of the mass of dielectric substance within specially designed microwave resonator. The attenuation of passing through the resonator signal is proportional to the actual value of the sample mass. Before firing experiments the setup is calibrated using samples of studied material with different channel radius. With the proper choice of data acquisition system one can achieve the web sample thickness resolution around few microns and time resolution higher than 1 kHz. The examples of preliminary tests with paraffin samples blown by air jets with temperatures of 350-1500 K and speeds of 375–700 m/s are presented.