Design of a Portable Electronic Nose for Identification of Minced Chicken Meat Adulterated With Soybean Protein Isolate

Abstract

The study aimed to develop a portable electronic nose system for detecting adulteration with soybean protein isolate (SPI) in chicken meat. The system mainly consisted of three parts: the gas sensor array, the DSP28335 control board, and the upper computer. The DSP28335 control board, developed using C language, included analog to digital converter (ADC) module, digital output (DO) module, pulse width modulation (PWM) module, controller area network (CAN) module, power module, drive circuit, and so forth. The upper computer, developed using LabVIEW, facilitated user interaction with the user by primarily handling CAN configuration and monitoring, displaying and storing sensor data, temperature and flow data, and sending and monitoring electronic nose commands. The feasibility of the proposed electronic nose for characterizing adulterated chicken meat was tested on six classes of chicken meat that had been adulterated with varied quantities of SPI. The mass fractions of SPI were 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, and 25%, respectively. On the basis of odor data from the electronic nose, K-nearest neighbor (KNN), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), and support vector machine (SVM) were applied to qualitatively distinguish minced chicken meat with different adulteration ratios. The results showed that the SVM model had the best recognition effect. When the best parameters (c, g) were c = 16 and g = 1, the accuracy of SVM model was 97.22% and 93.75% in the training and testing sets, respectively. These results demonstrated that the portable electronic nose designed in this paper effectively identifies minced chicken meat under various adulteration conditions, enabling rapid and nondestructive detection of chicken meat adulteration.