Environmental chemistry and analysis (5 cr)

Objective

This course provides the basic tools needed to understand the environmental behavior chemicals. 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.

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 environmental fate of chemicals?
How to develop strategies to assess and monitor the inorganic and organic contamination of different environmental spheres?
How to identify hazards, evaluate chemicals and assess risks?

Evaluation

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

Course material

Materials for the course will be found from the Learn.

Study forms and methods

Scheduled track:
The course consists of lecturers, exercises and laboratory work.

Student workload

Lecturers and exercises (32 h), laboratory work (16 h). Student's independent work 87 h.

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment methods and criteria

Exam, tasks and laboratory report

Assessment criteria, good (3-4)

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