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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Frying Oil Evaluation by a Portable Sensor Based on Dielectric Constant Measurement.

Mei Liu, Xiangzheng Qin, Zhanghao Chen, Lei Tang, Brandon Borom, Ning Cao, Daniel Barnes, Kai Cheng, Jinbo Chen, Tao Wang and 1 more

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Mei LiuShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Xiangzheng QinShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Zhanghao ChenShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Lei TangShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Brandon BoromShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Ning CaoShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Daniel BarnesShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Kai ChengShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Jinbo ChenShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Tao WangShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.
Jinjun RaoShanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics, School of Mechatronic Engineering and Automation1, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 51205245, 61573236, 51575333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A portable capacitive sensor was designed to assess frying oil degradation by measuring the changes in electrical capacitance. An interdigital electrode (IDE) was designed to be implemented as the testing probe (as IDEs are resistive to parasitic capacitance), together with an adjacent capacitive chip Pcap01 and a further microprocessor STM32, which were used as the data-processing elements. Experimental results demonstrated that viscosity could be a useful frying oil quality indicator, and also proved a preliminary correlation between IDE capacitance and oils' total polar materials. This implies that IDE capacitance could be a suitable metric for conveniently assessing frying oil degradation. The designed capacitance sensor is light in weight, cost effective, and has excellent potential for simple, inexpensive, on-the-spot testing of the current quality of frying oil.

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capacitive sensordielectric constantfrying oilinterdigital electrodetotal polar material

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PMID31817517
PMCPMC6960906

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