Chemometric calibration based on the wavelet transform for the quantitative resolution of two-colorant mixtures

Abstract

In this study we proposed a wavelet transform (WT) followed by two chemometric techniques for the quantitative determination of sunset yellow (SUN) and tartrazine (TAR) in their market samples. Absorbances of the concentration set formed by TAR and SUN mixtures were measured between 335-575 nm at 480 points with 0.5 nm intervals and their absorbance values as absorbance data vectors were transferred into the wavelets domain. A continuous wavelet transform (CWT) was applied, to the absorbance data. The obtained CWT-coefficients (x-block) and concentration set (y-block) were used for the construction of the principal component regression (VCR) and partial least squares (PLS) calibrations. Good results were reported for the application of the combining wavelets and chemometric tools in the determination of colorants in samples.