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Chemistry of the environment
FAST-BCA004Acad. year: 2022/2023
The course is focused on the explenation of basic chemical terms and on the chemical issues of the building materials such as binders, glass, metals, wood, and plastics and thier degradation. Patr of the course is devoted to the chemistry of water with respect to the wastewater treatment and toxicological aspects of selected chemical substances which can be released to the internal environment of buildings.
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The subject exam is oral. During the exam, the student must demonstrate an understanding of the given subject. The evaluation corresponds to the ECTS system.
Course curriculum
2. Atomic weight, molecular mass, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds.
3. States of the matter,gases,liquids, solids, behaviour on the interface.
4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium.
5. Dispersions - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsions, coloids, real solutes, surfactants.
6. Silicon and its compounds, chemistry and degradation of glass.
7. Chemical composition and properties of lime, gypsum and hydraulic binders, degradation processes and protection against corrosion.
8. Electrochemical properties of metals, electrolysis, corrosion of metals.
9. Composition and general properties of carbon-based polymers and thier chemical stability.
10.Polymer materials used in civil engineering - structure, properties, utilization.
11. Characteristics of water composition, chemical equilibria in water, pH, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
12. Water hardness and its elimination, ion exchangers.
13. Basic toxicological terms, essential polutants in the environment.
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Basic literature
Rovnaník P., Rovnaníková P. Stavební chemie – Modul 1, Obecná, fyzikální a anorganická chemie a chemie anorganických stavebních materiálů, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno, 2014. (CS)
Rovnaníková P., Rovnaník P., Malá J. Stavební chemie – Modul 2, Degradace stavebních materiálů a chemie kovů, Akademické nakladatelství CERM, Brno, 2014. (CS)
Recommended reading
Zumdahl S. S. Chemistry, D. C. Heath and Company, USA, 1986. (EN)
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- Programme BPC-EVB Bachelor's 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
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