Abstract 098
Control systems: chemical analysis
In Brewing: New Technologies C. Bamforth, Ed., Woodhead Publishing Ltd., Cambridge, UK, 2006, pp. 372-390
K.J. Siebert
A chapter in the book New Technologies to Improve Brewing Performance and Beer Quality. Successful analytical methods employ a means of detection that is sufficiently sensitive to determine a substance of interest in relevant samples with reasonable precision and accuracy. The analyte must be adequately separated from interferences prior to detection; the degree of separation required is determined by the specificity of the detector and the nature of the sample. In some cases the separation may be achieved mathematically rather than physically. Methods are increasingly likely to be automated or moved on line; both offer advantages. New technologies (including the use of biological recognition systems, microfluidics and laboratory information management systems) should lead to improvements in speed, precision and throughput.
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