Sürdürülebilir Kalkınma Amaçları
Yazarlar
- Hasar, Ugur Cem(4)
- Kaya, Yunus(4)
- Ertugrul, Mehmet(3)
- Ozturk, Hamdullah(3)
- Hasar, Hafize(2)
- Izginli, Mucahit(2)
- Ramahi, Omar M.(2)
- Barroso, Joaquim Jose(1)
- Barroso, Joaquim José(1)
- Bute, Musa(1)
- Canbolat, Mustafa Yildirim(1)
- Ebrahimi, Amir(1)
- Karaaslan, Muharrem(1)
- Kocadagistan, Mustafa Engin(1)
- Korkmaz, Huseyin(1)
- Nayyeri, Vahid(1)
- Ozbek, Ibrahim Yucel(1)
- Oztas, Taskin(1)
- Yuzgulec, Kadir(1)
Yayınlar
- MakaleYalnız künye2025Scopus SJRQ1Sensitive Microwave Sensor for Detection and Quantification of Water in Adulterated Honey
Hasar, Hafize; Hasar, Ugur Cem; Kaya, Yunus; Ozturk, Hamdullah; Korkmaz, Huseyin; Yuzgulec, Kadir; Karaaslan, Muharrem; Ebrahimi, Amir; Nayyeri, Vahid; Ramahi, Omar M.
Honey is a rich source of sugar and is one of the indispensable ingredients in infant foods. Thus, it can be subjected to adulteration due to its cost. Measurement techniques such as liquid chromatography and near-infrared spectroscopy, used for detecting any adulteration, are expensive and need to be conducted by highly trained personnel for off-line analysis. Microwave measurements, as a fast, simple, and relatively inexpensive analysis, have recently shown great potential in detecting adulteration within honey samples. Nonetheless, sensor types used in such measurements are conventional. In this study, a reflection-type sensitive microwave sensor terminated by a metal back is proposed for the first time in the literature for the detection and quantification of water percentage ( delta ) level (mass-to-mass basis) within water-adulterated honey samples. When compared with other resonance-based microwave cavity sensors, thanks to its eight strips located at the centers of two closed circular loops, it demonstrates superior frequency selectivity and sensitivity ( S=5.13 %) validated by full-wave 3-D simulations performed by the CST Microwave Studio and equivalent circuit analysis carried out by the Advanced Design System (ADS) software. For example, for ethanol, the proposed sensor gives a frequency shift of more than 1 GHz in the X band. Resonance frequency shift and variation of the reflection coefficient amplitude ( |S11| ) are measured at X band to detect honey samples with up to 8% adulteration level. Three different honey samples (flower honey, highland honey, and thyme honey) were examined to test the performance and applicability of the proposed sensor.
AtıfScopus18WoS14OpenAlex17İncele
- MakaleYalnız künye2022Scopus SJRQ1Complex Permittivity and Thickness Evaluation of Low-Loss Dielectrics From Uncalibrated Free-Space Time-Domain Measurements
Hasar, Ugur Cem; Kaya, Yunus; Ozturk, Hamdullah; Izginli, Mucahit; Barroso, Joaquim Jose; Ramahi, Omar M.; Ertugrul, Mehmet
A free-space time-domain method is proposed to retrieve dielectric constant (epsilon r), conductivity (sigma e), and thickness (d) of metal-backed low-loss dielectric samples using calibration-independent reflected power peak measurements. Its algorithm is validated by numerical calculations and simulations (CST Microwave Studio) using a sine-modulated Gaussian window. A sensitivity analysis is followed to examine its performance considering the dependencies of reflected power peaks with respect to epsilon r and sigma e. Free-space time-domain measurements have been implemented after transforming frequency-domain measurements into time-domain ones to extract epsilon r, sigma e, and d of polypropylene, polyethylene, and polyoxymethylene samples.
AtıfScopus48WoS42OpenAlex43İncele
- MakaleAçık Erişim2021Scopus SJRQ1Prediction of water-adulteration within honey by air-line de-embedding waveguide measurements
Hasar, Hafize; Hasar, Ugur Cem; Kaya, Yunus; Ozturk, Hamdullah; Izginli, Mucahit; Ozbek, Ibrahim Yucel; Oztas, Taskin; Canbolat, Mustafa Yildirim; Ertugrul, Mehmet
An efficient de-embedding air-line microwave method has been proposed for accurate relative complex permittivity, εr=εr′−iεr′′, measurement of water-adulteration level within honey. It could be effectively applied to eliminate the errors arising from usage of imperfect calibration standards because it bypasses the requirement of these standards. Its accuracy is improved by utilizing the unitary and similarity properties of a passive two-port network, and then is compared with the accuracy of a calibration-dependent method present in the literature by using normalized root-mean-square-error (N-RMSE) values of εr′ and εr′′ of distilled water, in reference to the Debye value. From this comparison, it is observed that N-RMSE values calculated for εr′ (and εr′′) by using this calibration-dependent method and the (improved) proposed method are, respectively, around 0.1955 (0.1002) and 0.1962 (1.1067), indicating a good agreement between them. After validation the proposed de-embedding method using distilled water measurements, tested pure honey was adulterated with distilled water by different percentage values δ ranging from 1% to 10% in 1% increments. It is observed that the maximum distance between extracted εr′ (or εr′′) values of adulterated honey by the applied calibration-dependent method and the proposed method is less than 2%. Afterward, an empirical formula was devised to fit εr′ and εr′′ values from measured εr of water-adulterated honey with various δ levels. It is noted that extracted εr′ is much more better fitted than extracted εr′′, especially for δ≤4. Next, an optimization process is followed to evaluate the frequency for optimum prediction of adulteration levels using the empirical formula based on εr′ or εr′′. It is noticed that optimized δ values using the empirical formula based on εr′ (with an average prediction error of around 0.071 at 4.5 GHz) are superior to optimized δ values using the empirical formula based on εr′′ (with an average prediction error of around 0.085 at 4.2 GHz) for prediction of previously known δ values. Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses were performed to assess and improve the accuracy of the proposed method.
AtıfScopus24WoS23OpenAlex24İncele
- MakaleAçık Erişim2014Scopus SJRQ1Attractive method for thickness-independent permittivity measurements of solid dielectric materials
Hasar, Ugur Cem; Barroso, Joaquim José; Bute, Musa; Kaya, Yunus; Kocadagistan, Mustafa Engin; Ertugrul, Mehmet
We propose a non-resonant-type method for reference-plane invariant and thickness-independent permittivity measurement of solid dielectric materials when there is no information from permittivity. To achieve this, we derive a branch-index-independent function and verify that it determines the sample thickness and permittivity without resorting to finding the correct branch index value for three different measurement scenarios: (a) measurements at closely separated frequencies of non-dispersive samples, (b) measurements at largely separated frequencies of non-dispersive samples, and (c) measurements at largely separated frequencies of dispersive samples. Via a differential uncertainty analysis, the effect of inaccurate sample thickness on permittivity determination is also presented for demonstration of the improvement achieved by our method. For validation, we measured the permittivity of an approximately 20 mm PTFE sample using the presented method and compared its result with those from other similar methods. From the comparison, we note that the accuracy of tested methods from literature drastically decreases when accurate information of sample thickness is not known (in addition to a further decrease in accuracy when correct transformation factors from reference-planes are not known a priori), while the accuracy of our method is not influenced.
AtıfScopus25WoS22OpenAlex25İncele

