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Journal of Tea Science ›› 2017, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 258-265.

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Monitoring Black Tea Fermentation Using a Colorimetric Sensor Array-based Artificial Olfaction System

CHEN Lin1,2, YE Yang1,*, DONG Chunwang1,*, HE Huafeng1   

  1. 1. Tea Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tea Processing Engineering of Zhejiang Province, National Engineering Technology Research Center of Tea Industry, Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resource Utilization of Ministry of Agriculture, Hzngzhou 310008, China;
    2. Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Beijing 100081, China
  • Received:2016-08-16 Revised:2016-10-13 Online:2017-06-15 Published:2019-08-22

Abstract: As the crucial procedure for production of black tea, fermentation plays an important role in quality control of black tea. This paper proposed a colorimetric sensor array-based artificial olfaction system to monitor black tea fermentation. Herein, a colorimetric sensor array by printing 16 chemical dyes including porphyrins/metalloporphyrins on a Silica gel thin-layer chromatography plate was utilized to detect volatile gases during black tea fermentation. Discrimination model was established by fisher discriminatory analysis and adaptive boosting algorithm based on BP-ANN (BP-Adaboost). Results showed that the discrimination rate and discrimination rate of cross-validation reached 100% and 90.74% respectively. BP-Adaboost model showed that the correlation coefficient of calibration set (Rc) and prediction set (Rp) were 0.9578 and 0.9132 respectively. This work demonstrates that it is feasible to distinguish the degree of black tea fermentation using a colorimetric sensor array-based artificial olfaction system.

Key words: black tea, fermentation degree, Fisher discriminatory analysis, BP-Adaboost algorithm

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