Desenvolvimento de método analítico para quantificar o teor de etanol em dispersão de álcool gel

Abstract

Concerned about the health of the academic community, the Catholic University of Brasilia (UCB), through the an Industry School of Pharmacy and Chemical, coordinated by the Pharmacy and Chemistry courses, has been producing alcohol gel aimed the decreasing the spread of diseases, that are transmitted by hands. The product started to be distributed through dispenses the point of highest concentration and movement of persons. Among the chemical physical parameters controlled the alcohol content is not included. Once the alcohol content is related to bactericidal capacity, this study is proposed to seek an analytical procedure that would allow this possibility of control. Through a redox reaction of the alcohol with properly optimized potassium dichromate and studied a method that appears before the first tests seems to be a possibility to control the gel alcohol produced in the UCB.