Course code:
515S1		 Course name:
Chemodynamics of Pollutants

Academic year:

2019/2020.

Attendance requirements:

102S1 + 200A1 + 200E1

ECTS:

7

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

Environmental Chemistry: 3. year, summer semester, compulsory course

Teacher:

Aleksandar R. Popoviæ, Ph.D.
full professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistant:

Dubravka J. Reliæ, Ph.D.
associate professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures + four hours of labwork (3+0+4)

Goals:

The main goal of this course is to introduce students to the most important types of pollutants in the environment, their anthropogenic and natural sources, classification and nomenclature, transfers of pollutants and the products of the transformation of pollutants between different spheres of the environment, the mechanisms of transformation and spreading in the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. Students also learn about the mechanisms of disappearance of pollutants from the environment and about the impact and consequences they have on plants, animals and humans.

Outcome:

The student understands the complexity of environmental processes and has developed an ability to predict and/or reconstruct the spread of pollutants in the environment and their elimination from the environment based on their properties.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and laboratory work.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:
  1. M. Lippmann (editor): Environmental Toxicants-Human Exposures and Their Health Effects, Wiley Interscience, Hoboken, USA, 2006.
  2. A. M. Ure, C. M. Davidson (editors): Chemical Speciation in the Environment, Blackwell Science, Oxford, 2002.
  3. D. W. Conell: Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, Lewis Publishers, Boca Raton, 1997.

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

0 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

Transformation and degradation in the environment. Toxicological parameters important for chemodynamic processes in the environment. Chemodynamics of petroleum hydrocarbons. Chemodynamics of PAHs. Chemodynamics of PCBs. Chemodynamics of dioxins. Chemodynamics of lipophilic pesticides. Chemodynamics of hydrophilic pesticides. Chemodynamics of synthetic polymers. Chemodynamics of organometallic compounds of mercury, tin, lead and arsenic. Chemodynamics of real in-situ processes - coal combustion in power plants.

Labwork:

10 points (4 hours a week)

Syllabus:

Chemodynamic equilibria: hexanol/water partition coefficient of crystal violet. Chemodynamic equilibria: adsorption on activated charcoal. Chemodynamic equilibria: adsorption on silica-gel. Determination of petroleum hydrocarbons in urban wastewater samples. Chemodynamics of PAHs: coal pyrolysis. Pyrolysis of polyvinyl chloride. Sequential extraction of soil. Speciation of trace elements in lignite ash.

Colloquia:

30 points

Written exam:

60 points