Photonics in Agriculture and Food

Photonics in Agriculture and Food

Willem Jan MulderDirector of Sales & Marketing

Avantes BV, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands

Some key figures of Avantes

• Developer and manufacturer of compact spectrometers, light

sources, fiber optics, and accessories

• 85 employees in Apeldoorn, 100+ total worldwide

• Since 1994 more than 43.000 spectrometers sold

• Sales offices in US, China, UK and Germany

• 44 Distributors all over the world

• Since 2008 part of the Nynomic group

15/2/2019 Avantes BV - Proprietary & Confidential - Photonics in Agriculture and Food, 2019

Technologies/principles


• UV-VIS

• NIR, MIR, IR

• RAMAN

• LIBS

• FTIR

• Absorption/Transmission

• Reflection

• Fluorescence /Photoilluminescence

• OES (Optical Emmission Spectroscopy)

Application Examples


NIR-Content Sensor


• Content analysis of corn, gras, alfalfa

• Parameters: dry matter, raw fiber, raw protein, raw fat, starch

Fruit sorting - internal quality

• All kind of fruits

• Measure saccharin, detect rotten spots,

. ripeness, brix, internal quality control

Requirements:

• High sensitivity

• Thermal stability

• High speed

• Signal-to-Noise performance


Milk and Cheese production


• Protein, Water en Fat monitoring

• Total Process Control → Lower STD in concentrations →

consistent product

• Reduce out of Specification → Lower waste

Food Quality

Quality control of food products resulting from heat treatments : cooking , roasting or frying

Measurement of compounds generated by Maillardreactions (reaction between sugars and amino-acids and proteins provoked by a heat treatment )

Formation of undesirable neo-formed compounds such as acrylamide


Manure content measurement system


• Mobile or stationary manure content characterization at stables or biogas

installations for settlement or documentation purposes,

• Parameters: Dry matter, Total Nitrogen, Ammonium Nitrogen, Phosphate,

Potassium

• Registration/control manure transports, avoiding fraude

• Efficient distribution on the field based on known manure content


Trends in spectroscopy

• Miniaturisation

• MEMS, Lab-on-Chip

• Spectral Imaging

• Speed of measurement (timing and triggering)

• Technique development (raman /libs)

• Out of the lab towards in process/in situ (chem)

• Towards individual measurement

• Internet of things / Avacloud (connectivity ethernet)

• Partnership : check our free demo program

Thank you for your attention

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