Modelos quimiométricos para a identificação e quantificação de cafeína em baixas concentrações em meio aquoso

Abstract

The increase in population for manufactured consumer it is a consequence from the waste generated, has a direct consequence without health status of the population, due to the serious consequences with the bioaccumulation of composed, such as medicines, personal hygiene products, toxic organic substances, also known as xenobiotics. Furthermore, an alarming inadequacy from the treatment systems and legislation related to the water, because the quality of the water supply in most Brazilian capitals, according to research provided by the Instituto Nacional de Ciências e Tecnologias Analíticas Avançadas (INCTAA), need to be revised, even though it is according to the standards of potability. In last decades, some advances have been made in relation to instrumental methods destinated to identification and quantification contaminants in water, and lately the main challenges are related to the development intended for treatment of the samples. On what was exposed, developed a methodology with a low cost, based on aquafotomics standards capable of identifying and quantifying contaminants in trace concentrations in aqueous environment. Therefore, an extensive bibliographical survey was carried out on this new area of science, an aquafotomics. The experimental part was based on spectroscopy for UV-vis-NIR combined with pattern recognition techniques spectroscopy, such as a PCA, and multivariate calibration, such as PLS and MLR. The construction of the identification and quantification models was made in 62 models of synthetic standards containing caffeine in low concentrations (10e^-5 a 10e^-9) in aqueous environment. The PCA models for identification were able to distinguish as samples containing caffeine from those of pure water. The quantification models gives a satisfactory predictive capacity for samples with concentrations higher than 10e^-6g.L^-1 in caffeine.