Data Fusion of Electronic Nose and Electronic Tongue for Detection of Mixed Edible-Oil

• Main Authors: Hong Men, Donglin Chen, Xiaoting Zhang, Jingjing Liu, Ke Ning
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2014-01-01
• Series: Journal of Sensors
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/840685

For the problem of the waste of the edible-oil in the food processing, on the premise of food security, they often need to add new edible-oil to the old frying oil which had been used in food processing to control the cost of the production. Due to the fact that the different additive proportion of the oil has different material and different volatile gases, we use fusion technology based on the electronic nose and electronic tongue to detect the blending ratio of the old frying oil and the new edible-oil in this paper. Principal component analysis (PCA) is used to distinguish the different proportion of the old frying oil and new edible-oil; on the other hand we use partial least squares (PLS) to predict the blending ratio of the old frying oil and new edible-oil. Two conclusions were proposed: data fusion of electronic nose and electronic tongue can be used to detect the blending ratio of the old frying oil and new edible-oil; in contrast to single used electronic nose or single used electronic tongue, the detection effect has increased by using data fusion of electronic nose and electronic tongue.