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Determination of ethanol concentration of ethanol/water mixture solutions with open ended coaxial method


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Khalid, Norashikin and Zainuddin, Mohamad Faiz and Abbas, Zulkifly and Mohamed, Tity Nazleen and Sabli, Nordin (2016) Determination of ethanol concentration of ethanol/water mixture solutions with open ended coaxial method. In: 2016 International Conference on Advances in Electrical, Electronic and Systems Engineering (ICAEES), 14-16 Nov. 2016, Putrajaya, Malaysia. (pp. 652-656).

Abstract

This study presents a simple and non-destructive procedure to determine ethanol concentration of ethanol/water solution at ambient temperature based on HP85070B open ended coaxial dielectric constant measurement. The motivation for this study stems from the fact that the `true' concentration of ethanol in a `labeled' container could be `spoiled' due to hygroscopic nature of ethanol, evaporation and other factors. The dielectric constant measurements of eight samples with different molar fraction were validated with modified Cole-Cole-Debye (3CC) simulations. A 5th degree polynomial calibration equation was developed based on 3CC simulations with R2 = 0.9998 and used to estimate the `true' concentration of three ethanol samples obtained from `labeled' containers kept in laboratory. The ethanol concentrations of two of the samples were found to be much lower than what was indicated on their labels, hence, assumed spoiled.


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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Divisions: Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Environmental Studies
Faculty of Science
Institute of Advanced Technology
DOI Number: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAEES.2016.7888127
Publisher: IEEE
Keywords: Ethanol concentration; Permittivity; Debye model; Open ended coaxial
Depositing User: Nabilah Mustapa
Date Deposited: 05 Mar 2018 02:32
Last Modified: 05 Mar 2018 02:32
Altmetrics: http://www.altmetric.com/details.php?domain=psasir.upm.edu.my&doi=10.1109/ICAEES.2016.7888127
URI: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/59436
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