Chemodynamics of Pollutants   (515S2)

Academic year:

2024/2025.

Attendance requirements:

102S2 + 201A2 + 202A2

ECTS:

7

Study level:

Study program:

Teacher:

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

Assistant:

Dubravka J. Relić, 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:

http://helix.chem.bg.ac.rs/~apopovic/predavanja

Lectures:

0 points (3 hours a week)

Labwork:

10 points (4 hours a week)

Colloquia:

30 points

Written exam:

60 points