Course detail
Environmental chemistry
FCH-MCO_CZP2Acad. year: 2022/2023
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. Environmental reactions occurring in different parts of the environment, ie atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere pedosphere.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
1. Students gain characterize individual components of the environment and the types of pollutants that can contaminate the folder
2. Students manage to describe the distribution of inorganic and organic pollutants on the boundary phases, ie between the atmosphere and hydrosphere, atmosphere, and pedosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere
3. Students will learn to define photochemical reactions in the atmosphere and other environmental reaction, which is the distribution of pollutants
4. Students learn to perform assessment of the level of contamination of ecosystems
5. Students manage to describe the possibility of contamination of biotic matrices from the environment, ie from the atmosphere, hydrosphere and pedosphere
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
1. Principle of evaluation of state of environment in the Czech Republic
2. Description of the abiotic components of the ecosystem in terms of the possibility of penetration of contaminants
3. Methods of assessing the level of contamination of the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere, biosphere
Block 2
1. The possibility of inorganic and organic pollutants in the various components of the ecosystem
2. Physico-chemical aspects necessary for evaluating distribution between phases
Block 3
1. Types of priority pollutants and their transfer within the different components of ecosystems
Block 4
1. Chemical reactions allowing the transfer of pollutants between environmental
Block 5
1. Photochemical reactions in the atmosphere and their importance for secondary contamination by atmospheric transmission
2. Types of environmental chemical reactions
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NKCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NKCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
- Programme NPCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NPCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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