This book serves as a focal point for user exchange, new applications, and current state-of-the-art and future trends in the area of sensor array instrumentation.

Electronic Noses and Sensor Array Based Systems provides an effective representation of applications, technology, and future trends.

Features:

• State-of-the-art advances in characterizing and quantifying odors and volatile compounds

• Effects and treatments of off-odors

• Fast and reliable methods for quality control analysis, management, and control

• Multi-sensor arrays and associated pattern analysis techniques

Contents

• Harvest Maturity and Storage Temperature Affect Volatile Profiles of Ripe Tomato Fruits: Electronic Nose and Gas Chromatographic Analyses.
  
• The Electronic Nose: Studies on the Fundamental Response and Discriminative ower of Metal-Oxide Sensors
• Strategies for Improving the Analysis of Volatile Organiz Compounds Using GC-Based Electronic Nose
• Use of an Electronic Nose to Classify Different Types of Italian Cheeses
• Evaluation of an Electronic Nose for Use in the Meat Industry
• Ink-Jet Printed and High Sensitivity Conducting Polymer Odor Sensors for Oliv Oil Olfactory Assessment
• Feature Extraction for a Hybrid Gas Sensing System
• A Systematic Approach for Tuning Microhotplate Chemical Gas Sensors
• Developments and Trends in QCM Odor Sensing Systems
• Evaluation and Optimization of an Electronic Nose
• Modular Chemical Sensor Systems: the MOSES II Approach
• Microbial, Sensory and Electronic Nose Evaluation of Pasteurized Whole Milk
• Electronic Nose Odor Evaluation of Salmon Fillets Stored at Different Temperatures
• Odor and Microbiological Evaluation of Raw Tuna: Correlation of Sensory and Electronic Nose Data
• Evaluation of the Odor of Decomposition in Raw and Cooked Shrimp: Correlation of Electronic Nose Readings, Odor Sensory Evaluation and Ammonia Levels
• A New Chemical Sensor on a Mass Spectrometric Basis—Development and Applications
• Examples of Applications of an Electronic Nose to the Analysis of Volatile Compounds Secreted Outside the Human Body
• Discrimination of Spirits with an Opto-Electronic Nose
• A Pilot-Plant Study of an Automated Quality Control Electronic Nose for the Monitoring of Dry Cured Hams
• Optimization of Fox Sensor Array System for QC Packaging in Factory Environment, Robustness, Sample Throughput and Transferability
• Optimization of Fox Sensory Array System for QC Packaging in Factory Environment, Robustness, Sample Throughput and Transferability
• Intensity and Quality Discrimination Using the Fox4000 Gas Sensor Array System
• Strategies for Solving Odor Problems Related to Synthetic Industrial Chemicals
• Rapid Fruit Cultivar Identification by an Artificial Olfactory System
• Investigations on Peppermint Oils Using Electronic Noses
• A New Mass Spectrometry-Based Electonic Nose for Headspace Characterization
• Electronic Nose for Monitoring Cocoa Beans Aroma
• Factors Affecting Sensory and Electronic Nose Threshold Values for Food Aroma Compounds
• Conducting Polymer Sensor Arrays
• Gas Sensor Arrays for Contaminated Soils

Index

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