Design of sample display system on electronic nose for synthetic flavor classification

Abstract

This study aimed to design a controlled sample display system on an electronic nose and test its performance for classifying synthetic flavors. There are four primary components to the electronic nose design. They are a controlled sample display system, detector, signal conditioning and preprocessing, and pattern recognition software. The sample display system consists of six vials. The sample room temperature setpoint is set to 40 ℃. The controlled sample display system has one heater and two fans to even the room temperature. The one-time data collection process consists of flushing (120 s), collecting (180 s), and purging (180 s). The samples for the performance test were synthetic flavors with four different aromas; durian, mocca, orange, and strawberry. Data analysis of gas sensor response was done through two stages; pre-treatment data processing and principal component analysis (PCA). The four samples were clearly different from others, according to the PCA results. The scores of the PC-1, PC-2, and PC-3 cumulative variance were 98.28%.