PřF:C2003 Environmental chemistry - Course Information

C2003 Environmental chemistry

Extent and Intensity

2/0/1. 2 credit(s) (fasci plus compl plus > 4). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), graded credit, z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Sara Pernilla Bohlin, PhD. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Pavel Čupr, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Ivan Holoubek, CSc. (lecturer)
prof. RNDr. Jana Klánová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
prof. Gerhard Lammel, PhD. (lecturer)
Lisa Emily Melymuk, Ph.D. (lecturer)
RNDr. Ondřej Mikeš, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Luca Nizzetto, PhD. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Zdeněk Šimek, CSc. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

prof. RNDr. Ivan Holoubek, CSc.
RECETOX – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jakub Hofman, Ph.D.
Supplier department: RECETOX – Faculty of Science

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20

Course objectives

After this course, students should be able to:
- understand the global environmental problems
- understand relations between the chemical structure of chemical substances, their physical-chemical properties and their fate in the environment
- understand the impact of environment properties on the fate of chemicals
- interpret the environmental fate of chemical substances, their environmental transport, interphase transport, phase equilibria and environmental biotic and abiotic transformation
- characterize properties of environmental compartments (atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, biosphere) and combine this knowledge with the presence and fate of chemical compounds in these compartments
- understand problems related to pollution of environmental compartments from natural and anthropogenic sources
- explain the relationships between the pollution sources and primary and secondary types of pollution of environmental compartments
- characterize and discuss environmental and health impacts of pollution
- characterize the main types of highly problematic and harmful chemicals, mainly those that are non-degradable or persistent, have the ability to cumulate in abiotic and biotic compartments, posses a broad range of toxic effects, and can be transported to long distances
- describe basic properties of these chemicals, their occurrence, sources, long-range transport, toxicological and ecotoxicological properties
- describe and discuss legislation and policy of these compounds and international conventions
- describe purposes and principles of the activities focused on screening and monitoring of presence of antropogenic chemicals in the environment
- select the best analytical methods for the individual groups of chemicals
- distinguish between specific sampling methods for determination of volatile, non-volatile, polar and non-polar compounds in air, water, sediment, soil and biota
- review the analytical techniques for the sample preparation, clean-up and fractionation
- compare the separation and identification techniques and their applicability for determination of various organic chemicals in the environmental samples
- define fundamentals of chromatographic and mass spectroscopy methods
- introduce the quality assurance/quality control measures - understand the whole concept of chemical analysis of the environmental samples

Syllabus

• • Global environmental problems. Chemicals in the environment – definitions, basic approaches. Environmental harmful chemicals.
• • Fate of chemicals in the environment – transport, transformation. Environmental interface and chemical equilibrium. Parameters characterizing the properties of substances and environmental properties. Relationships between chemical structure and reactivity.
• • Basic characteristics, problems and environmental chemistry of environmental compartments – atmosphere, soil, sediment, water. Air pollution, smog, ozone layer, global warming. Acidification of the environment. Water pollution, waste waters and their treatment. Primary and secondary soil pollution.
• • Environmental transport of chemicals in air, water, soils and biota. Abiotic environmental equilibria (air-water, air-soil, air-biota, deposition, sorption, water-solid phase, leaching, runoff …).
• • Biotic environmental equilibria (bioaccumulation, biomagnifications …).
• • Abiotic transformations of chemicals. Photochemical transformation processes. Biotic transformations of chemicals. Biodegradation. Biotransformation.
• • Effects of chemical substances - overview, mechanisms.
• • Models of environmental distribution of chemicals. Multimedia models. Environmental databases and information systems. Integrated register of pollution.
• • International conventions and activities focused on environmental substances. New approaches in chemistry, green chemistry, sustanaible chemistry.
• • Environmental contamination. Main groups of environmental pollutants (persistent organic pollutants, toxic metals, volatile organic compounds, detergents, phthalates, pesticides) – basic characteristics, sources, reaction and transport, toxicological and ecotoxicological effects.
• • Environmental monitoring: purpose and principles, international measures and programs. Conceptual approaches in environmental analytical chemistry.
• • Sampling methods for air, atmospheric deposition, water, sediment, soil and biota.
• • Analytical techniques for the sample extraction, clean-up and fractionation of the environmental samples.
• • Separation and identification techniques with the special focus on chromatography and mass spectroscopy.
• • Application of the above-discussed techniques for determination of the most important groups of environmental pollutants.
• • Quality assurance/quality control measures. Interpretation of the analytical data

Literature

• The handbook of environmental chemistry. Edited by O. Hutzinger. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. info
• • J. H. Seinfeld, S.N. Pandis: Atmospheric chemistry and physics. ISBN: 0-471-17816-0
• BEARD, James M. Environmental chemistry in society. Boca Raton: Taylor & Francis, 2009, xvii, 345. ISBN 9781420080254. info
• HITES, R. A. Elements of environmental chemistry. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Intersicence, 2007, xiii, 204. ISBN 9780471998150. info
• IBÁÑEZ, Jorge Guillermo. Environmental chemistry : fundamentals. New York, NY: Springer, 2007, xviii, 334. ISBN 9780387260617. info
• Risk assessment of chemicals : an introduction. Edited by C. J. van Leeuwen - T. G. Vermeire. 2nd ed. Dordrecht: Springer, 2007, xxxii, 686. ISBN 9789048175369. info
• Trace elements in the environment : biogeochemistry, biotechnology, and bioremediation. Edited by M. N. V. Prasad. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2006, 726 s. ISBN 1566706858. info
• Chromatography 6th edition : fundamentals and applications of chromatography and related differential migration methods. Edited by Erich Heftmann. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004, xl, 518. ISBN 0444511067. info
• SCHWARZENBACH, René P., P. M. GSCHWEND and Dieter M. IMBODEN. Environmental organic chemistry. 2nd ed. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, 2003, xiii, 1313. ISBN 0471357502. info
• POOLE, C. F. The essence of chromatography. 1st ed. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2003, ix, 925. ISBN 0444501991. info
• SIEGEL, Frederic R. Environmental geochemistry of potentially toxic metals. Berlin: Springer, 2002, xii, 218. ISBN 3540420304. info
• MEYER, Veronika R. Practical High-Performance Liquid Chromatography. 3rd ed. Chichester: J. Wiley & Sons, 1999, 338 pp. ISBN 0-471-98372-1. info
• STUMM, Werner and James J. MORGAN. Aquatic chemistry : chemical equilibria and rates in natural waters. 3rd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1995, xvi, 1022. ISBN 0471511854. info
• FIFIELD, F. W. and P. J. HAINES. Environmental Analytical Chemistry. (Eds.). London: Blackie Academic & Professional, 1995. ISBN 0-7514-0052-1. info
• Toxic metals in soil-plant systems. Edited by Sheila M. Ross. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1994, xiv, 469. ISBN 0471942790. info
• ALSBERG, Tomas. Persistent organic pollutants and the environment. Solna: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, 1993, 137 s. ISBN 91-620-4246-7. info
• LINDSAY, S. High Performance Liquid Chromatography. 2nd Edit. Chichester: J. Wiley, 1992. Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning (Series). ISBN 0 471 93115 2. info
• SKOOG, Douglas A. and James J. LEARY. Principles of instrumental analysis. 4th ed. Fort Worth: Saunders College Publishing, 1992, xii, 700 s. ISBN 0-03-023343-7. info

Teaching methods

Education is performed as lectures (weekly or in blocks) with Powerpoint presentation. Understanding of mechanisms and consequences is emphasized. Students are frequently asked questions and they are encouraged to discuss the topics. An interactive seminar is held in the end of the course where the students are invited to apply knowledge and skills gained in the course on selected case study.

Assessment methods

Attendance of the lectures is not mandatory but strongly recommended to exploit potential of the interactive approach... Final assessment (at the end of semester) has a form of a colloquium.

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
General note: www.recetox.muni.cz.

Teacher's information

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