Differentiation of NaCl, NaOH, and β-Phenylethylamine Using Ultraviolet Spectroscopy and Improved Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony Combined with BP-ANN Algorithm.

The aim of this study is to enhance the classification performance of the back-propagation-artificial neural network (BP-ANN) algorithm for NaCl, NaOH, β-phenylethylamine (PEA), and their mixture, as well as to avoid the defects of the artificial bee colony (ABC) algorithm such as prematurity and local optimization. In this paper, a method that combined an improved adaptive artificial bee colony (IAABC) algorithm and BP-ANN algorithm was proposed. This method improved the ABC algorithm by adding an adaptive local search factor and mutation factor; meanwhile, it can enhance the abilities of the global optimization and local search of the ABC algorithm and avoid prematurity.

An Automatic Baseline Correction Method Based on the Penalized Least Squares Method.

Baseline drift spectra are used for quantitative and qualitative analysis, which can easily lead to inaccurate or even wrong results. Although there are several baseline correction methods based on penalized least squares, they all have one or more parameters that must be optimized by users. For this purpose, an automatic baseline correction method based on penalized least squares is proposed in this paper.

Predicting the redshift on the ultraviolet spectrum using the peak area method.

The ultraviolet (UV) absorption peaks of NaCl, NaOH, and $\beta $β-phenylethylamine (PEA) in an aqueous solution move toward redshift. We proposed the peak area method for the quantitative analysis of PEA, NaCl, and NaOH. First, we obtained the predictable regularities of the redshift of the single component sample.

Study on the shift of ultraviolet spectra in aqueous solution with variations of the solution concentration.

In this study, we mainly focused on predictable regularities of the red shift of ultraviolet spectra for β-phenylethylamine (PEA), NaCl and NaOH in aqueous solution. The absorption peaks of the UV spectra near 191 nm of NaCl, NaOH and PEA in aqueous solution moved in the direction of a red shift while the molar absorption coefficient at the peak increased regularly with the increasing solution concentration. These shifts were obtained for solutions with concentrations ranging from 3.