Abstract
The photoacoustic spectroscopy plays a very important role in the assessing of the photoacoustic response released by red fruits undergo external environmental factors (such as pollution and UV radiation) with valuable proven atributes: sensitivity, selectivity, versatility, reliability, robustness, ease of use and relatively low cost per unit. In this research, the measurements were concentrated on the potential of IR spectroscopy in the analysis of red fruits cherry tomatoes exposed to pollution from various car engines and UV radiation. The results were correlated with red fruits cherry tomatoes exposed to nitrogen air flow (anaerobic conditions) with red fruits cherry tomatoes exhibited normal aerobic conditions (synthetic airflow). With the advantages of laser photoacoustic spectroscopy technique, we showed that red fruits cherry tomatoes under pollution and UV radiation, emit more ethylene gas than those analyzed under normal conditions..
Keywords
Photoacoustic response, Red fruits, Pollution, UV radiation.
Citation
C. POPA, M. PETRUS, A. M. BRATU, M. PATACHIA, S. BANITA, Photoacoustic response of cherry tomatoes contaminated with car engines pollution and UV radiation, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 11, 3-4, March-April 2017, pp.262-266 (2017).
Submitted at: July 1, 2016
Accepted at: April 6, 2017