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Kanan S, Obeideen K, Moyet M, Abed H, Khan D, Shabnam A, El-Sayed Y, Arooj M, Mohamed AA. Recent Advances on Metal Oxide Based Sensors for Environmental Gas Pollutants Detection. Crit Rev Anal Chem 2024:1-34. [PMID: 38506453 DOI: 10.1080/10408347.2024.2325129] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/21/2024]
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Optimizing materials and associated structures for detecting various environmental gas pollutant concentrations has been a major challenge in environmental sensing technology. Semiconducting metal oxides (SMOs) fabricated at the nanoscale are a class of sensor technology in which metallic species are functionalized with various dopants to modify their chemiresistivity and crystalline scaffolding properties. Studies focused on recent advances of gas sensors utilizing metal oxide nanostructures with a special emphasis on the structure-surface property relationships of some typical n-type and p-type SMOs for efficient gas detection are presented. Strategies to enhance the gas sensor performances are also discussed. These oxide material sensors have several advantages such as ease of handling, portability, and doped-based SMO sensing detection ability of environmental gas pollutants at low temperatures. SMO sensors have displayed excellent sensitivity, selectivity, and robustness. In addition, the hybrid SMO sensors showed exceptional selectivity to some CWAs when irradiated with visible light while also displaying high reversibility and humidity independence. Results showed that TiO2 surfaces can sense 50 ppm SO2 in the presence of UV light and under operating temperatures of 298-473 K. Hybrid SMO displayed excellent gas sensing response. For example, a CuO-ZnO nanoparticle network of a 4:1 vol.% CuO/ZnO ratio exhibited responses three times greater than pure CuO sensors and six times greater than pure ZnO sensors toward H2S. This review provides a critical discussion of modified gas pollutant sensing capabilities of metal oxide nanoparticles under ambient conditions, focusing on reported results during the past two decades on gas pollutants sensing.
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- Sofian Kanan
- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- Sustainable Energy and Power Systems Research Center, RISE, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- Department of Biology, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
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Martini A, Calì M, Capoccioni F, Martinoli M, Pulcini D, Buttazzoni L, Moranduzzo T, Pirlo G. Environmental performance and shell formation-related carbon flows for mussel farming systems. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2022; 831:154891. [PMID: 35364169 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.154891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2021] [Revised: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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This study examined the environmental performance of mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) farming in the view of reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, through the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology. The LCA has been integrated with the evaluation of the carbon sequestration potential of the biocalcification process. Three case studies of mussel farming sited along the coastal area in the north Adriatic Sea, Italy, were analyzed. Two of them concerned mussels that do not require a depuration process (area Class A), and one inspected mussel production in the rearing area of Class B, which imposes a depuration phase after harvesting. This study examined all the relevant flows of materials and energy across the systems and explored the potential role of mussel biocalcification in stocking seawater carbon into the shells. Global Warming (GW) -related emissions amounted to 0.07-0.12 kg CO2 eq for Class_A case studies and to 0.53 kg CO2 eq for Class_B case study. Through biogenic calcification, 0.19-0.20 kg CO2 kg-1 mussel is fixed in the shells, and 0.12 kg CO2 kg-1 mussel is released. These flows resulted in a net sequestration of about 0.08 kg CO2 kg-1 mussel. This study confirmed the good environmental performance of the mussel production in the farming systems analyzed. When considering greenhouse gasses emissions, the extent to which the seawater carbon fixed in the shell as calcium carbonate can be considered a carbon sink was discussed and substantiated by locally collected environmental data.
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- Arianna Martini
- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Antonio Lombardo 11, 26900 Lodi, LO, Italy; CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy.
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Salaria 31, 00015 Monterotondo, RM, Italy
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- CREA Council for Agricultural Research and Economics Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture, Via Antonio Lombardo 11, 26900 Lodi, LO, Italy
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A Low-Temperature Micro Hotplate Gas Sensor Based on AlN Ceramic for Effective Detection of Low Concentration NO 2. SENSORS 2019; 19:s19173719. [PMID: 31466246 PMCID: PMC6749266 DOI: 10.3390/s19173719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/2019] [Revised: 08/25/2019] [Accepted: 08/27/2019] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Air pollution is one of the major threats to human health. The monitoring of toxic NO2 gas in urban air emission pollution is becoming increasingly important. Thus, the development of an NO2 sensor with low power consumption, low cost, and high performance is urgent. In this paper, a planar structural micro hotplate gas sensor based on an AlN ceramic substrate with an annular Pt film heater was designed and prepared by micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) technology, in which Pt/Nb/In2O3 composite semiconductor oxide was used as the sensitive material with a molar ratio of In:Nb = 9:1. The annular thermal isolation groove was designed around the heater to reduce the power consumption and improve the thermal response rate. Furthermore, the finite element simulation analysis of the thermal isolation structure of the sensor was carried out by using ANSYS software. The results show that a low temperature of 94 °C, low power consumption of 150 mW, and low concentration detection of 1 to 10 ppm NO2 were simultaneously realized for the Nb-doped In2O3-based gas sensor. Our findings provide a promising strategy for the application of In2O3-based sensors in highly effective and low concentration NO2 detection.
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Significant electrochemical sensors for ethylene and propylene: the state-of-the-art. MONATSHEFTE FUR CHEMIE 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s00706-018-2208-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Wang Z, Geng J, Ren W. Quartz-Enhanced Photoacoustic Spectroscopy (QEPAS) Detection of the ν 7 Band of Ethylene at Low Pressure with CO 2 Interference Analysis. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2017; 71:1834-1841. [PMID: 28145742 DOI: 10.1177/0003702817690406] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Ethylene (C2H4) was detected using quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) at 10.5 µm with a continuous wave, distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser as the light source. The QEPAS sensor was operated at low pressures (≤200 torr) to eliminate the cross-talk spectral interference between C2H4 and CO2, a major interfering species in practical applications. The sensor was calibrated to show a good linear response to C2H4 concentration and the Allan deviation analysis demonstrated a minimum detection limit of 8 ppb at an integration time of 90 s. Although no spectral overlap between C2H4 and CO2 was confirmed at the pressure ≤200 torr by the direct absorption measurement using a 28-m multipass cell, we observed the apparent influence of the CO2 addition to the C2H4/N2 mixture on the photoacoustic signal of C2H4. An energy transfer model involving the vibration-vibration (VV) and vibration-translation (VT) transitions in the C2H4-CO2-N2 system was constructed to interpret the experimental data. Additionally, the vibrational relaxation times of C2H4 were obtained based on the QEPAS technique and the energy transfer model, which were in good agreement with the previous studies.
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- Zhen Wang
- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
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- Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong
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Wang Z, Li Z, Ren W. Quartz-enhanced photoacoustic detection of ethylene using a 10.5 μm quantum cascade laser. OPTICS EXPRESS 2016; 24:4143-4154. [PMID: 26907064 DOI: 10.1364/oe.24.004143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A quartz-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy (QEPAS) sensor has been developed for the sensitive detection of ethylene (C2H4) at 10.5 µm using a continuous-wave distributed-feedback quantum cascade laser. At this long-wavelength infrared, the key acoustic elements of quartz tuning fork and micro-resonators were optimized to improve the detection signal-to-noise ratio by a factor of >4. The sensor calibration demonstrated an excellent linear response (R2>0.999) to C2H4 concentration at the selected operating pressure of 500 and 760 Torr. With a minimum detection limit of 50 parts per billion (ppb) achieved at an averaging time of 70 s, the sensor has been deployed for measuring the C2H4 efflux during the respiration of biological samples in an agronomic environment.
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Zou J, Zheng Y, Li J, Zhan Z, Jian J. Potentiometric NO2 Sensors Based on Thin Stabilized Zirconia Electrolytes and Asymmetric (La0.8Sr0.2)0.95MnO3 Electrodes. SENSORS 2015. [PMID: 26205270 PMCID: PMC4541949 DOI: 10.3390/s150717558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Here we report on a new architecture for potentiometric NO2 sensors that features thin 8YSZ electrolytes sandwiched between two porous (La0.8Sr0.2)0.95MnO3 (LSM95) layers—one thick and the other thin—fabricated by the tape casting and co-firing techniques. Measurements of their sensing characteristics show that reducing the porosity of the supporting LSM95 reference electrodes can increase the response voltages. In the meanwhile, thin LSM95 layers perform better than Pt as the sensing electrode since the former can provide higher response voltages and better linear relationship between the sensitivities and the NO2 concentrations over 40–1000 ppm. The best linear coefficient can be as high as 0.99 with a sensitivity value of 52 mV/decade as obtained at 500 °C. Analysis of the sensing mechanism suggests that the gas phase reactions within the porous LSM95 layers are critically important in determining the response voltages.
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- Jie Zou
- Gas Sensors & Sensing Technology Laboratory, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), Shanghai 200050, China.
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- Gas Sensors & Sensing Technology Laboratory, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), Shanghai 200050, China.
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (SICCAS), Shanghai 200050, China.
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- Gas Sensors & Sensing Technology Laboratory, College of Information Science and Engineering, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, China.
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Lee WC, Tsang KF, Chi HR, Hung FH, Wu CK, Chui KT, Lau WH, Leung YW. A high fuel consumption efficiency management scheme for PHEVs using an adaptive genetic algorithm. SENSORS 2015; 15:1245-51. [PMID: 25587974 PMCID: PMC4327074 DOI: 10.3390/s150101245] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A high fuel efficiency management scheme for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has been developed. In order to achieve fuel consumption reduction, an adaptive genetic algorithm scheme has been designed to adaptively manage the energy resource usage. The objective function of the genetic algorithm is implemented by designing a fuzzy logic controller which closely monitors and resembles the driving conditions and environment of PHEVs, thus trading off between petrol versus electricity for optimal driving efficiency. Comparison between calculated results and publicized data shows that the achieved efficiency of the fuzzified genetic algorithm is better by 10% than existing schemes. The developed scheme, if fully adopted, would help reduce over 600 tons of CO2 emissions worldwide every day.
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- Wah Ching Lee
- Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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Janssen S, Schmitt K, Blanke M, Bauersfeld ML, Wöllenstein J, Lang W. Ethylene detection in fruit supply chains. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. SERIES A, MATHEMATICAL, PHYSICAL, AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES 2014; 372:20130311. [PMID: 24797138 PMCID: PMC4006173 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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Ethylene is a gaseous ripening phytohormone of fruits and plants. Presently, ethylene is primarily measured with stationary equipment in laboratories. Applying in situ measurement at the point of natural ethylene generation has been hampered by the lack of portable units designed to detect ethylene at necessary resolutions of a few parts per billion. Moreover, high humidity inside controlled atmosphere stores or containers complicates the realization of gas sensing systems that are sufficiently sensitive, reliable, robust and cost efficient. In particular, three measurement principles have shown promising potential for fruit supply chains and were used to develop independent mobile devices: non-dispersive infrared spectroscopy, miniaturized gas chromatography and electrochemical measurement. In this paper, the measurement systems for ethylene are compared with regard to the needs in fruit logistics; i.e. sensitivity, selectivity, long-term stability, facilitation of automated measurement and suitability for mobile application. Resolutions of 20-10 ppb can be achieved in mobile applications with state-of-the-art equipment, operating with the three methods described in the following. The prices of these systems are in a range below €10 000.
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- S. Janssen
- Institute for Microsensors, -actuators and -systems (IMSAS), University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee NW1, Bremen 28359, Germany
- Microsystems Center Bremen (MCB), Bremen, Germany
- Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), Bremen, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM), Freiburg, Germany
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- INRES—Horticultural Science, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM), Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Microsystems Engineering, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Fraunhofer Institute for Physical Measurement Techniques (IPM), Freiburg, Germany
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- Institute for Microsensors, -actuators and -systems (IMSAS), University of Bremen, Otto-Hahn-Allee NW1, Bremen 28359, Germany
- Microsystems Center Bremen (MCB), Bremen, Germany
- Bremen Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics (LogDynamics), Bremen, Germany
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Wilson AD. Diverse applications of electronic-nose technologies in agriculture and forestry. SENSORS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2013; 13:2295-348. [PMID: 23396191 PMCID: PMC3649433 DOI: 10.3390/s130202295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 126] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2012] [Revised: 01/30/2013] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Electronic-nose (e-nose) instruments, derived from numerous types of aroma-sensor technologies, have been developed for a diversity of applications in the broad fields of agriculture and forestry. Recent advances in e-nose technologies within the plant sciences, including improvements in gas-sensor designs, innovations in data analysis and pattern-recognition algorithms, and progress in material science and systems integration methods, have led to significant benefits to both industries. Electronic noses have been used in a variety of commercial agricultural-related industries, including the agricultural sectors of agronomy, biochemical processing, botany, cell culture, plant cultivar selections, environmental monitoring, horticulture, pesticide detection, plant physiology and pathology. Applications in forestry include uses in chemotaxonomy, log tracking, wood and paper processing, forest management, forest health protection, and waste management. These aroma-detection applications have improved plant-based product attributes, quality, uniformity, and consistency in ways that have increased the efficiency and effectiveness of production and manufacturing processes. This paper provides a comprehensive review and summary of a broad range of electronic-nose technologies and applications, developed specifically for the agriculture and forestry industries over the past thirty years, which have offered solutions that have greatly improved worldwide agricultural and agroforestry production systems.
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- Alphus D Wilson
- USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Center for Bottomland Hardwoods Research, Southern Hardwoods Laboratory, Stoneville, MS 38776, USA.
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