Il. Mattos et al., SIMULTANEOUS SPECTROFLUOROMETRIC DETERMINATION OF GLYCEROL AND ETHANOL IN WINE BY FLOW-INJECTION USING IMMOBILIZED ENZYMES, Analyst, 120(1), 1995, pp. 179-182
An automatic spectrofluorimetric method for the simultaneous determina
tion of glycerol and ethanol is presented. The method is based on the
use of a flow injection (FI) manifold and dehydrogenase enzyme immobil
ized on controlled-pore glass. The proposed method allows for the simu
ltaneous determination of glycerol (linear range between 1 and 10 mu g
ml(-1), r = 0.9989 and s(r) <1%) and ethanol (linear range between 10
and 100 mu g ml(-1), r = 0.9998 and s(r) <0.9%). It was applied to th
e determination of both analytes in different wines with recoveries be
tween 97 and 105%. The sampling frequency was 60 samples h(-1). The re
sults obtained on eight wines were compared with those provided by con
ventional methods and the agreement between them corroborated the usef
ulness of the proposed method.