Course detail

Environmental chemistry

FCH-MCO_CZP2Acad. year: 2011/2012

Students will have a clear idea on present state of environment in the Czech Republic. Basic terms and relationships characterising behaviour and fate of substances in environment, i.e. environmental interface and chemical equilibrium, persistence of substances in environment, environmental equilibriums, transport in and between environmental compartments including chemical and transformation reactions. Bioaccumulation, bioenrichment, biodegradation, biotransformation. Important groups of environment pollutants. Environmentalˇs reaction.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

prof. RNDr. Milada Vávrová, CSc.

Department

Institute of Chemistry and Technology of Environmental Protection (ÚCHTOŽP)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Acquisition of knowledge on both processes influencing behaviour of substances in environment and on transfers among individual compartments of environment

Prerequisites

Successful completion of courses Chemistry of environment I.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Oral examination in which knowledge acquired from lecture study texts and also from recommended literature is checked

Course curriculum

1. Principle of evaluation of state of environment in the Czech Republic
2. Description of individual abiotic compartments of ecosystem; methods of evaluation
3. Transfer in individual components of ecosystem
4. Types of priority pollutants and their transfer within the frame of individual compartments of ecosystems
5. Description of individual biotic compartments of ecosystem; methods of evaluation
6. Chemical reactions enabling transfer of pollutants between compartments of environment
7. Photochemical reactions in atmosphere and their importance for secondary contamination by atmospheric transfer.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

Acquisition of knowledge on chemistry of environment, especially that one on transformation in all environmental compartments.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

none

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Ivan Holoubek: Chemie životního prostředí II (handouts), , 0 (CS)

Recommended reading

Káš: Biochemie životního prostředí (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. RNDr. Milada Vávrová, CSc.

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

prof. RNDr. Milada Vávrová, CSc.