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  • Master Thesis
    Development of Fast and Simple Analytical Methods for the Determination of Honey Adulteration and Forgery Based on Chemometric Multivariate Data Analysis by Using Molecular Spectroscopy
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Başar, Başak; Özdemir, Durmuş
    Honey is one of the most valuable and expensive nutrition due to its health effects on human body. In recent years, honey adulteration has become an important problem and is a subject of many publications. There exists various analytical methods for determination of honey adulteration with 13C/12C isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IR-MS) being the most common. However, one of the recent studies indicates that different honey types depending on geographical and botanical origin may have significantly different 13C/12C isotope ratios rendering this method questionable. Thus, development of an analytical method for qualitative and quantitative determination of forgery and adulteration of honey without tedious and complicated sample preparation while being relatively simple and fast new analytical methods became a must. In this study, Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy coupled with Attenuated Total Reflectance and Fourier Transform Near Infrared spectroscopy based chemometrics multivariate calibration models were developed for the quantitative determination of honey adulteration. To simulate adulteration scenarios, artificially adulterated honey samples were prepared by adding beet sugar, corn syrup, glucose and sucrose with various concentrations to pure honey samples. Two different multivariate calibration methods namely Genetic Inverse Least Squares and Partial Least Squares were used and the applicability of these methods have been evaluated with an independent validations and test set composed of FTIR spectra of more than 100 pure honey samples along with the adulterated samples. Standard error of cross validation and standard error of prediction values for honey content of the samples were found 2.52% and 2.19% (w/w %), respectively.
  • Master Thesis
    Development of Rapid and Simple Spectroscopic Techniques Based on Chemometrics Data Analysis for the Determination of Goat Milk Adulteration With Cow Milk
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Samancıoğlu, Hülya; Özdemir, Durmuş
    Milk and milk products are one of the most consumed foods. However, there has been an increase in milk adulteration, especially goat milk. Current methods for detection of milk adulteration are expensive, impractical and are not sufficient to answer quantitatively. Therefore, to meet this demand, a rapid, easy to use and inexpensive method was developed in this study. The proposed methodology is based on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) with the combination of multivariate calibration techniques for determination of adulteration of goat milk with cow milk. During the study, 150 raw goat milk samples were collected from different goats in 3 different seasons (June-2014, December 2014, March2015). Then, adulterated samples were prepared with goat milk, cow milk and water. Both adulterated and raw goat milk samples were analyzed with FTIR. Afterwards, 7 different multivariate calibration models (for each season (3), binary combination of seasons(3) and a ternary combination of all the seasons) were generated with synthetically prepared samples by using Genetic Inverse Least Squares (GILS) and Partial Least Squares (PLS) methods. These models were used to predict both adulterated and raw goat milk samples in order to evaluate the success of the models. Standard Error of Prediction (SEP) values for goat milk, cow milk and water are 7.9, 6.3 and 4.9 (w/w %), respectively, indicate satisfactory predictions by GILS. On the other hand, PLS models gave SEP values ranging between 6.4 and 12.9 (w/w %).
  • Master Thesis
    Cation Exchange in Zeolites Structure Modification by Using a Microwave
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 1999) Akdeniz, Yelda; Ülkü, Semra
    In this research, characterization and modification of clinoptilolite minerals from different deposits have been studied to determine its utility for different Clinoptilolite minerals obtained from the source located in Western (FTIR) to determine the structural properties. The FTIR spectra of the samples showed the characteristic vibrations of the clinoptilolite framework. Thermal properties were determined using Differential Thermal Analyzer (DTA), Thermal Gravimetric Analyzer (TGA), and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC). The analysis showed that the structure of the samples were stable up to 650 DC and due to the Fe203 present in the tuff, phase inversion was observed. Accelerated Surface Area and Porosimeter (ASAP 2010) used to determine the adsorptionrelated properties using N2 and Ar adsorption isotherms. The samples showed different adsorption behaviour toward each gas. The pore size distribution of clinoptilolite samples showed that they have mesaporous structure.The clinoptilolite was modified by ion exchange using 1N NaCI salt solution in waterbath, and in microwave maintained at 80 DC for 10 min, 60 min and 120 min. The efficiency of each method on ion exchange was compared. The Na+ amount in the zeolite was found to be 2.25 and 3.24 % by weight after 2 hours of exchange in waterbath and microwave, respectively. The results showed that microwave method used for modification was more efficient.
  • Master Thesis
    Kinetic Morphological, and Compositional Characterization of the Uptake of Aqueous Ba2+, Mn2+, and Cd2+ Ions by Calcite and Aragonite Over a Wide Range of Concentration
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2007) Tunusoğlu, Özge; Shahwan, Talal
    The large availability and widespread distribution of calcium carbonate, CaCO3, in Earth.s crust makes it among the most important minerals to investigate in terms of environmentally and geochemically important aqueous-metal partitioning interactions. In this study, the interactions of Ba2+, Mn2+, and Cd2+ with calcite and aragonite were investigated over a wide range of experimental conditions. The experiments were conducted to examine the effects of time, concentration, pH, temperature on the uptake process assess at low concentrations and the composition and morphology of the precipitated carbonates. The kinetic data corresponding to adsorption were adequately described by the pseudo-second order rate equation. At equilibrium, the extent of adsorption on both minerals followed the order Cd2+ > Mn2+ > Ba2+. Precipitation of metal carbonates proceeded at a slower rate and led to large removal of the ions under consideration. The mass fractions of the precipitated metal carbonates were determined using quantitative XRD. For this purpose, empirical equations were developed for binary carbonate mixtures. FTIR was used to follow the possible modifications in vibrational modes of calcite and aragonite, and the newly emerging vibrations of various carbonate phases. According to SEM results, BaCO3 crystals appeared to be 1-2 micrometers in size with an olivary-like shape and MnCO3 crystals assumed a cubic shape with 200-400 nm size. The particles of precipitated CdCO3 did not demonstrate a well defined shape and its texture appeared to be composed of aggregated sub-micron crystals that form micron sized particles with irregular appearance.
  • Master Thesis
    Development of Genetic Algorithms Based Multivariate Calibration Models for the Determination of Lubricating Oil Compositions Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013) Anıl, İrem; Özdemir, Durmuş
    Engine oils consist of base oils and additives. There have been a number of changes in the composition of engine oils depending on the time and using conditions like the decrease in the aditive amounts and increase in the amount of oxidation products. Although there are many physical and chemical standard test methods for the determination of oil quality, none of these methods alone can be used to determine the whole composition of engine oils. The main objective of this work, is to develop a single anlytical method that is simple, rapid and accurate for the quantitative determination of lubricating oil compositions using Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy combined with chemometric multivariate data analysis. For this study, a number of most intensively produced engine oils are chosen in an industrial lubrication oil plant and then synthetic mixtures of oil components were prepared in order to develop multivariate calibration models. The FTIR spectra of these samples were recorded using a three reflection attenuated total reflectance (ATR) accessory. The collected spectral data and the reference concentration values of the samples are then used in multivariate calibration modelling step using a genetic algorithm based inverse leaast squares (GILS) calibration method. It was observed that the correlation coefficients between the reference concentration values and the GILS predicted concentrations were around 0.99. As a result, FTIR spectroscopy combined with multivariate calibration can be a rapid method for the quaantitative determination of engine oil compositions.