Università Roma Tre

First Part: Metrological Section
Concept of Measure and its Philosophical Interpretation, Definition of the Concept of Quality, Definition of Measure, General Algorithm for Measures, Concept of Uncertainty, Measure Scales: Identity, Ordinal and Extensive, No-Direct Measures, International Measurement System, Standard, Measure Methods, Instrumentation.
Concepts of Sensor and Trasducer, Examples of Sensors, Examples and Applications of Sensors in the Agro-Food Chain, Introduction to the Analogical and Digital Measurement Chain, the Monitoring, the Feedback, Typical Instrumentation for Agro-Food Applications.
Introduction to Organoleptic Metrology, Quality Food Evaluation, Realization of an Example of Survey Module for Organoleptic Test, Test for the Quality Food Evaluation.

Second Part: Chemical Section
Definition and fundamental quantities: response, sensitivity, reversibility, resolution, noise, limit of detection, accuracy and reproducibility, drift.
Sensors and dosimeters: differences and characteristics.
Chemistry related to the sensing mechanisms: VOCs (Volatile organics compounds), gas-solid, liquid-solid interactions.
The electronic nose and the technologies related to the Gas Sensing: Metal Oxide Semiconductor Sensors (MOS), Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM), Surface Acoustic Wave sensors (SAW), Amperometric sensors, Optical sensors, Pellistor sensors, Conductive Organic Polymer sensors.
Applications of the electronic nose: eg. discrimination of origin of wines, authenticity of dairy products, discrimination of coffee based on the volatile fraction, aging of fish products based on the detection of amines, aging of fruit and meat on the volatile fraction, classification of EVO oils etc.
The electronic tongue and the technologies related to sensors in liquid: potentiometric sensors, arrays of voltammetric sensors, optical sensors.
Applications of electronic tongue: monitoring of commercial water samples, detection of the organic fraction in fruit-based drinks, studies of the origin of tea.
Spectroscopic techniques as a validation tool in the food and wine field

Slides provided by the Professor.