Method and apparatus for the measurement of
mass or density and / or for the measurement of the
humidity in a plurality of portioned units in a non-metallic
carrier material, which provides the following: a
microwave measuring instrument, consisting of at least one
microwave resonator for generating at least one
resonance mode in a spatially limited measurement area and an analysing unit for analysing at least one variable of the at least one
resonance mode, a conveying device for the
carrier material, which transports the
carrier material with the portioned units through the measurement area, the
microwave measuring instrument measures at least one variable of the at least one
resonance mode at a time when only the carrier material without portioned unit is in the measurement area, and at a time when the portioned unit is at least partially in the measurement area, the analysing unit subtracts the variable measured for the carrier material from the measurement values for the portioned unit, and determines a value of the
humidity and / or of the
mass or density of the portioned unit from at least one difference by way of an input-output map.