Environmental Chemistry (5cr)

Objective

This course provides the basic tools needed to understand environmental chemistry. Environmental chemistry is defined as the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in water, soil, air, and living environments. As such, it provides the fundamental scientific basis required for dealing with almost any environmental area, including pollution control, regulation, risk assessment, and hazardous waste management and minimization. You will also deepen your knowledge of inorganic chemistry and learn the basics of organic chemistry. Working in the laboratory will strengthen your understanding of chemistry.

Content

What are the environmental effects of a range of priority pollutants? What are the chemical reactions and reaction kinetics, equilibrium reactions, solubility and thermodynamics affecting the chemicals environmental fate and basic calculations needed? What is the role of organic material and other environmental variables in the chemical’s environmental behavior? What is the equilibrium partitioning and what it means? What are the organic functional groups, their systematic structures and reactions, naming of the compounds?

Qualifications

Basic Engineering Physics and Chemistry

Assessment criteria, good (3)

a. use professional vocabulary systematically. b. look for information in the key information sources of the field. c. identify interrelated tasks. e. use the key models, methods, software and techniques of the professional field.