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    AOCS Official Method Ba 2a-38 (2009)

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    1) This method determines the moisture and volatile matter content in oilseed by-products like cottonseed meals, soybean meals, and flaxseed meals. 2) The method involves weighing a sample, drying it in an oven at 130°C for 2 hours, cooling it in a desiccator, and reweighing to calculate the moisture and volatile matter percentage based on weight loss. 3) Notes provide details on equipment, preparing the test sample, and exceptions for certain products like safflower meal which is dried for 1.5 hours instead of 2 hours.

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    1) This method determines the moisture and volatile matter content in oilseed by-products like cottonseed meals, soybean meals, and flaxseed meals. 2) The method involves weighing a sample, drying it in an oven at 130°C for 2 hours, cooling it in a desiccator, and reweighing to calculate the moisture and volatile matter percentage based on weight loss. 3) Notes provide details on equipment, preparing the test sample, and exceptions for certain products like safflower meal which is dried for 1.5 hours instead of 2 hours.

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    1) This method determines the moisture and volatile matter content in oilseed by-products like cottonseed meals, soybean meals, and flaxseed meals. 2) The method involves weighing a sample, drying it in an oven at 130°C for 2 hours, cooling it in a desiccator, and reweighing to calculate the moisture and volatile matter percentage based on weight loss. 3) Notes provide details on equipment, preparing the test sample, and exceptions for certain products like safflower meal which is dried for 1.5 hours instead of 2 hours.

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    AOCS Official Method Ba 2a-38 (2009)

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    1) This method determines the moisture and volatile matter content in oilseed by-products like cottonseed meals, soybean meals, and flaxseed meals. 2) The method involves weighing a sample, drying it in an oven at 130°C for 2 hours, cooling it in a desiccator, and reweighing to calculate the moisture and volatile matter percentage based on weight loss. 3) Notes provide details on equipment, preparing the test sample, and exceptions for certain products like safflower meal which is dried for 1.5 hours instead of 2 hours.

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    SAMPLING AND ANALYSIS OF OILSEED BY-PRODUCTS

    AOCS Official Method Ba 2a-38


    Reapproved 2009

    Moisture and Volatile Matter


    DEFINITION
    This method determines the moisture in the products specified, and any material that is volatile under the
    conditions of the test.
    SCOPE
    Applicable to cottonseed meats, and meal and ground cake or pellets from cottonseed, soybeans, peanuts,
    flaxseed, and sunflower seed. For safflower meal see Notes, 1.

    APPARATUS
    1. Aluminum moisture dishes—minimum 30 gauge, approximately 50 × 20 mm, with tight-fitting slip-over covers (see
    Notes, 2, 3).
    2. Forced-draft oven—AOCS Specification H 1-39.
    3. Desiccator—containing an efficient desiccant. Calcium chloride is not satisfactory. See AOCS Specification H 9-87.
    4. Riffle type divider 15 × 15 cm (6 × 6 in.) (see Notes, 4).
    5. Boerner divider—36 pocket (see Notes, 4).
    6. Airtight test sample containers—100-g capacity.

    PREPARATION OF TEST SAMPLE


    1. Pass the original 1000 g sample through the riffle and reduce to 100 g. Immediately place in airtight container. Weigh
    ­moisture test sample immediately.

    PROCEDURE
    1. Weigh about 5 g (2 g for soybean oil cake or meal and for linseed meal) of the test sample into tared moisture dish.
    2. Place the dish in the oven and dry at 130 ± 3°C for 2 h.
    3. Remove from the oven, cover immediately, cool in a desiccator to room temperature and weigh.

    CALCULATIONS loss in mass, g


    1. Moisture and volatile matter, % = × 1000
    mass, g of test portion
    NOTES
    1. Moisture content determination for safflower meal is performed according to National Institute of Oilseed Products rules
    (1.5 hr at 130°C).
    2. For test samples with high moisture and volatile content, the use of lightweight, coverless, disposable weighing dishes may
    give erroneously high results due to test sample loss from splattering during heating.
    3. Suitable equipment may be available from Sargent-Welch.
    4. Equipment available from Seedburo Equipment Co., Chicago, IL, USA.
    5. Replaces Ba 2-38.

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