DETEKSI KEBERADAAN VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND PADA PROSES FERMENTASI NATA DE COCO MENGGUNAKAN HIDUNG ELEKTRONIK
LEONY VITA ARTANTI, Dr. Darmawan Ari Nugroho, S.T.P., MP; Dr. Henry Yuliando, S.T.P., M.M., M.Agr
2024 | Skripsi | TEKNOLOGI INDUSTRI PERTANIAN
Nata de coco is a food product produced from fermenting coconut water with Acetobacter xylinum bacteria. Nata de coco consists of cellulose in the form of Bacterial Cellulose (BC). During the fermentation process, microorganisms will release volatile organic compounds (VOC) which result in the formation of a characteristic aroma in the fermentation which is volatile. VOCs can be detected from the gas produced during the nata de coco fermentation process. The gas profile pattern of nata de coco fermentation which consists of various types of VOC is the main criterion for assessing the quality of BC and can detect the success of the fermentation process. Therefore, changes in gas profile patterns during the entire fermentation process should be investigated for evaluation.
The electronic nose can detect gas profile patterns based on changes in voltage due to the diversity of VOCs during the nata de coco fermentation process. In this study, the electronic nose used consisted of 10 metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) type gas sensors, 1 temperature sensor, and 1 humidity sensor used to detect VOC characteristics in the nata de coco fermentation process based on the response pattern of the electronic nose sensor. The electronic nose sensor response is carried out by signal pre-processing and feature extraction from each sensor. The extracted data was analyzed using a pattern recognition model for similarities or differences in electronic nose sensor responses using the PCA method.
The results obtained show that the electronic nose is able to differentiate the quality of nata de coco fermentation based on fermentation time and differences in sample aroma with PCA analysis using feature extraction parameters of mean, median, maximum, standard deviation and gradient of 86.734%; 86.314%; 85.378%; 82.040%; and 81.498%. In nata de coco fermentation, there was an increasing VOC trend based on fermentation time from 0 to 64 hours and 72 hours to 160 hours. Meanwhile, at the 64th hour and 72nd hour there was a significant increase. Based on the GC-MS testing that has been carried out, it can be confirmed that there are three volatile components that are similar to the target gas in S8, in the form of 2-propanone (acetone) at 38.70%, ethyl alcohol (ethanol) at 35.04%, and pyrazine in the form of 3-Aminopyrrolidine (n-hexane) of 14.80%.
Kata Kunci : electronic nose (hidung elektronik), fermentasi BC, nata de coco, principal component analysis (PCA), volatile organic compounds (VOC)