A New Hyphenated μ Trap—GC—Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) Based Electronic Nose For Monitoring Of Coffee Quality

An easy‐to‐use and versatile analytical method for complex matrix analisis like coffee was developed. The system consists of a microtrap sample preparation, a home made simplified gaschomatographic separation unit and an 8‐fold surface acoustic wave based sensors (SAW) array detector. For the coffee quality analysis a successful discrimination of three coffee samples could be achieved. The system would be further developed into a fully automated, low cost version that can be broadly used by the coffee producers.