CORESTA Meeting, Smoke/Technology, Hamburg, 1997, ST29
Application of NIR to determine the contents of expanded tobacco, reconstituted tobacco and stem in tobacco blends
Japan Tobacco Inc., Product Quality Research Division, Tokyo, Japan.
In the manufacturing process, it is most important to blend expanded tobacco (ET), reconstituted tobacco (RT) and stem correctly, since their proportions in tobacco blends have a great influence on the smoke components and physical properties of the...