Monitoring black tea fermentation using a colorimetric sensor array‐based artificial olfaction system

The fermentation process plays an important role in black tea's quality control and determination. This article presented a portable artificial olfaction system for real-time monitoring of black tea. Herein, a colorimetric sensor array, which was fabricated by printing 12 chemical dyes, including 9 porphyrins/metalloporphyrins and 3 pH indicators on a C2 reverse silica-get flat plate, was utilized to develop the artificial olfaction system for data acquisition. With specific colorific fingerprint of volatile compounds from black tea, fermentation time can be achieved with efficient chemometrics. Additionally, a novel classification algorithm, which combined K-Nearest Neighbor and adaptive boosting, namely KNN-AdaBoost, was proposed with a comparison of two classical classification algorithms (e.g., KNN and BP-ANN). Results demonstrated that the optimum KNN-AdaBoost model was superior to others with discrimination rate of 100% in both the training and prediction set. The overall results sufficiently reveal that the colorimetric sensor has promising applications in real-time fermentation monitoring. Practical applications The fermentation process plays an important role in black tea's quality control and determination. However, traditional analytical chemical methods (i.e., mass spectrometry, liquid chromatography gas, and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry) can monitor the fermentation process and have some drawbacks, such as complicated operation, high costs of implementation, and lengthy analysis time. This research notably proposed a portable artificial olfaction system for real-time monitoring black tea; and examined the feasibility, accuracy and effectiveness of this sensor. The overall results obtained from this study sufficiently reveals that the colorimetric sensor has promising applications in real-time fermentation monitoring.

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