| Oilseeds have an important role in edible oil production. Moisture content measurement of oilseed is an inevitable operation in harvesting and almost all postharvest processing such as handling, storage, milling and oil extraction. In this paper, a cylindrical capacitive sensor was used to predict the moisture content of sesame, soybean and canola seed as a simple, low cost, rapid and reliable method. Two varieties of each oilseed were selected and extracted equation from a variety was evaluated for another variety. The hyperbolic regression and paired t-test were utilized to extract the calibration equations and perform a comparison between predicted moisture with actual values. The R2 of calibration for Dashtestan and Ultan sesame were 0.998 and... |
