Microwave coplanar sensor system for detecting contamination in food products

Author

Shaji, M. ; Akhtar, M.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol. Kanpur, Kanpur, India

fYear

2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

A novel microwave coplanar sensor system for detecting contamination in food products such as milk and oil etc., is designed and developed. The developed system is fully non-invasive and non-destructive, which requires the test liquid to be filled into a disposable container. The sensor placed above the liquid filled container is connected to the network analyzer through appropriate RF connectors to measure the scattering coefficients of the test fluid over a designated frequency band. The dielectric properties of the adulterated specimen are determined in terms of the measured scattering data, and these values are compared with the dielectric data of standard samples in order to find the level of contamination.

Keywords

contamination; dielectric properties; food safety; microwave detectors; nondestructive testing; adulterated specimen; dielectric measurement; dielectric properties; food contamination detection; microwave coplanar sensor system; milk; nondestructive techniques; noninvasive techniques; oil; Containers; Dielectrics; Liquids; Permittivity; Permittivity measurement; Pollution measurement; Coplanar sensor; RF sensors; dielectric measurements; food contamination; non-invasive technique;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave and RF Conference, 2013 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMaRC.2013.6777723

Filename

6777723