Detection of lard adulteration in palm oil using U-shaped plastic optical fiber

Fadhel I. Husada, Ika Puspita, A. M. Hatta, S. Sekartedjo

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Abstract

Palm oil is one of common consumed raw food and found adulterated with another materials such as lard. Palm oil adulteration can cause some problems in norms and health. Some methods have been developed in detect lard mixing in foods such as spectroscopy based methods, including infrared spectroscopy and some methods which is complex, expensive, and need of experts. In other side, plastic optical fiber with u-shaped configuration has been developed as biosensors. Through utilization of evanescent field and effect of the change in refractive index to the transmitted power, it has been design a sensor based on plastic optical fiber to detect lard adulteration in palm oil. Experiments show that the most optimal sensor design based on plastic optical fiber with u-shaped configuration is sensor with Infrared LED as light source, 50 mm curvature radius of bend, dan 2 cm length of peeled cladding. From the experiments, sensitivity of the sensor is 0.15630352 μW / % lard concentration.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThird International Seminar on Photonics, Optics, and Its Applications, ISPhOA 2018
EditorsAulia Nasution, Agus Muhammad Hatta
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510627543
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event3rd International Seminar on Photonics, Optics, and Its Applications, ISPhOA 2018 - Surabaya, Indonesia
Duration: 1 Aug 20182 Aug 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume11044
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

Conference3rd International Seminar on Photonics, Optics, and Its Applications, ISPhOA 2018
Country/TerritoryIndonesia
CitySurabaya
Period1/08/182/08/18

Keywords

  • Evanescent field
  • Plastic Optical fiber
  • Refractive index
  • U-shaped configuration

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