ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
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- Academic year
- 2022/2023
- Teacher
- LUISA PASTI
- Credits
- 6
- Curriculum
- CHIMICA, AMBIENTE E TERRITORIO
- Didactic period
- Primo Semestre
- SSD
- CHIM/01
Training objectives
- Fundamental understanding of principles of environmental chemistry. To provide students the ability to:
- describe important chemical reactions in the environment,
- understand of sources, chemodynamics and fate of pollutants in the environment.
- be familiar with the research literature.
- interpret and critically analyze the data on environmental chemical analysis. Prerequisites
- Fundamentals in General Chemistry, Inorganic, Analitycal and Organic Chemistry.
Course programme
- The course consists of 48 hours of theoretical lessons and numerical exercises. Biogeochemical cycles. Environmental sustainability. Fundamentals of aquatic chemistry: acid-base, precipitation, redox and complexation processes. Environmental chemistry of colloids. Humic substances. Water pollution and waste-water treatment chemistry. Geochemistry and soil environmental chemistry. Atmosphere: photochemical reaction, ozone, inorganic and organic air pollutants, smog, atmospheric aerosols, greenhouse gases and aerosols.
Case Study Analysis. Didactic methods
- Frontal lectures on all the course’s topics. Exercises on environmental case studies
Learning assessment procedures
- Scope of the exam is to verify the knowledge of students on the environmental processes and their ability to critically analyze environmental issues.
The exam is divided up into two parts:
a) oral discussion (about 30 min presentation with slides) on a topic chosen by the student.
b)After presentation, an oral discussion (4 questions) of the topic and on environmental issues related to the presented topic. Reference texts
- The reference text:
Gary W. vanLoon, Stephen J. Duffy "Environmental Chemistry a global perspective", Oxford University Press, 2010.
Slides used during the lessons.
Other textbooks
- Stanley E. Manahan "Environmental Chemistry", Lewis Pub, 2000.
- René P. Schwarzenbach, Philip M. Gschwend, Dieter M. Imboden, 'Environmental Organic Chemistry', John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Scientific reports on case studies
