Determination of elemental composition of coffee using UV-pulsed laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

M. A. Gondal*, Umair Baig, M. A. Dastageer, Mohsin Sarwar

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Abstract

A detection system based on laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) was built using 266nm wavelength pulsed laser from the fourth harmonic of Nd:YAG laser, 500 mm spectrograph and gated ICCD camera with built-in delay generator. The LIBS system was used to study the elemental composition in coffee available in the local market of Saudi Arabia for the detection of elements in coffee samples. The LIBS spectrum of coffee sample revealed the presence magnesium, calcium, aluminum, copper, sodium, barium, bromine, cobalt, chromium, cerium manganese and molybdenum. Atomic transition line of sodium is used to study the parametric dependence of LIBS signal. The study of the dependence of LIBS signal on the laser pulse energy is proven to be linear and the dependence of LIBS signal on the time delay between the excitation and data acquisition showed a typical increase, a peak value and a decrease with the optimum excitation - acquisition delay at 400 ns.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th Saudi International Meeting on Frontiers of Physics, SIMFP 2016
EditorsAbdelrahman Mahdy, Nurdogan Can, Ali Al-Kamli, Mohamed Fadhali, Galib Omar Souadi, Mahmoud Mahgoub
PublisherAmerican Institute of Physics Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9780735413993
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameAIP Conference Proceedings
Volume1742
ISSN (Print)0094-243X
ISSN (Electronic)1551-7616

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ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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