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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; Özdemir, Durmuş; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyHoney 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 Spectroscopic Determination of Vegetable Oiland Biodiesel in Petroleum Diesel Using Mulitivariate Calibration(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2008) Arıkan, Aysun; Özdemir, Durmuş; Özdemir, Durmuş; 04.01. Department of Chemistry; 04. Faculty of Science; 01. Izmir Institute of TechnologyDue to the limited petroleum reserves and pollutant effect of petroleum fuels, the use of alternative fuels has became important in recent years. Diesel is one of the most used petroleum fuel, whose exhaust emissions composed of harmful particles, that pollutes the environment. In this sense, vegetable oils and their esters (biodiesel) are considered environmentally friendly fuels, which reduce hazardous impact of diesel emissions. However, using vegetable oils directly in diesel engines may cause some engine problems due to their high viscosity. The most commonly used way to reduce their viscosity is the converting into biodiesel. Because biodiesel production is expensive and time consuming, diesel may be illegally adulterated with vegetable oils before converting into biodiesel.Diesel may also adulterated with kerosene due to the large price differences. The main impact of this adulteration is increased emissions, which damage the environment. On the other hand, the addition of kerosene may also damage the engine. Because of these reasons, it is important to determine these adulterants illegally present in petroleum diesel. In this study, we have determined the adulteration of diesel with sunflower, canola oil, used frying oil, kerosene, and biodiesel by different molecular spectroscopic techniques combined to genetic inverse least squares (GILS). The results showed that the GILS method is suitable in the fast determination of diesel adulteration with vegetable oils, used frying oil, kerosene, and biodiesel when combined to NIR, FTIR-ATR, and molecular spectroscopic techniques.