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Master Thesis Development of Molecular Fluorescence Spectroscopy Based Multivariate Calibration Models for Quantitative Determination of Fatty Acids and Triacylglycerol Compositions of Olive Oils(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2020) Hedef, Onur; Özdemir, DurmuşThis study illustrates the quantitative determination of fatty acid and triacylglycerol composition of olive oils by using multivariate calibration methods namely partial least squares (PLS) and genetic inverse least squares (GILS) coupled with molecular fluorescence spectroscopy. The reference analysis of the olive oils was carried out with gas chromatography (GC) and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) for the compositions, respectively. A total of 125 olive oil samples were collected from Marmara and Aegean olive growing regions in western Turkey, right after the olives oils are produced in the 2010 -2011 season. Chromatographic and fluorescence analyses were performed simultaneously on the samples and then collected spectra were combined with reference analysis results for the multivariate calibration step. Among the several components analyzed by both GC and HPLC, 10 components from fatty acids and 10 components from triacylglycerols were chosen for modeling. Multivariate calibration models were constructed by randomly selecting 100 samples as calibration set and assigning the remaining 25 samples to the independent validation set using PLS and GILS with leave one out cross-validation based on the fluorescence spectra of the olive oils. The results have demonstrated that the compositions could be successfully determined by using molecular fluorescence spectroscopy. The standard error of cross-validation (SECV) and standard error of prediction (SEP) values were acceptable for most of the components. The regression coefficients (R2) of reference values vs. predicted values ranged from 0.70 to 0.98, indicating that molecular fluorescence spectroscopy combined with multivariate calibration could potentially be used for quantitative determination.Master Thesis Determination of Total Acid Number in the Optimization of Oleate Production by Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Calibration(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2019) Toygar Türkün, Nihan; Özdemir, DurmuşPolyethylene glycol oleate (PEG-Oleate) is a non-ionic surfactant, and is an important emulsifier for water-oil systems. It is produced by reacting oleic acid and polyethylene glycol (PEG) under vacuum for around 4 hours and at 160 °C, in the presence of acid catalyst which is para toluene sulfonic acid (PTSA). The quality and process control of this production is determination of total acid number (TAN) by the standard method ASTM D974 which is a color indicator titration. Although titration is a simple method, it is relatively time consuming and prone to human error. Besides, the solvents used in titration method, are significantly unhealthy for humans. The aim of this study is to develop fast and simple procedure for the determination of total acid number based on Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) combined with multivariate calibration methods namely Genetic Inverse Least Squares (GILS) and Partial Least Squares (PLS). The reference total acid number of the samples collected during the esterification reaction, had been carried out by the ASTM D974 standart method and the Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectra of the same samples were also collected simultaneously with single reflection diamond Attenuated Total Reflectance (ATR) accessory. Univariate calibration was applied on a specific wavenumber corresponding to the ester peak around 1739 cm–1. Although the changes in the ester peak was showing an inrease associated to the esterification of the reactants, the results of the univariate calibration was unsucsesful. The best regression coefficient was found to be 0.997 by GILS method along with SECV and SEP as 2.295 and 2.694 mg KOH/g, respectively. The results of GILS showed that it is possible to monitor esterification process of PEG oleate.