Environmental chemistryLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

This course provides the basic tools needed to understand chemicals environmental behaviour. Environmental chemistry is the study of the sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemicals 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. 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 and what kind of effects those have to the environmental fate of chemicals? 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?

Qualifications

Basic engineering 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.