Molecules, Vol. 25, Pages 3312: Artificial Intelligence Methods for Constructing Wine Barrels with a Controlled Oxygen Transmission Rate

This article proposes artificial intelligence methods for selecting staves for the construction of barrel heads or bodies with a desired target OTR. Genetic algorithms were used to implement these methods in consideration of the known OTR of the staves and the geometry of the wine barrels. The proposed methods were evaluated in several scenarios: homogenizing the OTR of the actual constructed barrels, constructing low-OTR and high-OTR barrels based on a preclassification of the staves and implementing the proposed method in real cooperage conditions. The results of these experiments suggest the suitability of the proposed methods for their implementation in a cooperage in order to build controlled OTR barrels.

Source: Molecules - July 20, 2020 Category: Chemistry Authors: V íctor Martínez-Martínez Ignacio Nevares Maria del Alamo-Sanza Tags: Article Source Type: research