Valid from August 2007
A-317-1 Aquatic Environmental Chemistry
Akvatisk miljøkemi
Practical information
| Status: | Compulsory course of the postgraduate programme in environmental chemistry. Elective for master’s and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences |
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| Timing: | 1st semester of the Master in Environmental Chemistry. Spring (master’s and postgraduate students at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences) |
| Teaching method: | Lectures, theoretical exercises, computer exercises and project work. |
| Course weight: | 7.5 ECTS points |
| No. of hours: | 12 hour weekly |
| When offered: | Once a year: Block: 3, Week structure B |
| Examination: |
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| Course materials: | Schwarzenbach, Gschwend & Imboden: Environmental Organic Chemistry. 2rd edition, 2003, with supplementary notes |
| Language: | The course will be held in English. |
| Capacity: | Maximum 60 students |
Objective
To give students:
- Insight into the inorganic and organic chemical processes of aquatic systems
- Knowledge about how environmental problems related to aquatic systems can be quantified (calculated)
- Detailed knowledge about the methods available for predicting the fate of chemical substances in an aquatic environment
- Basic understanding of the formation and chemical composition of main types of aquatic systems.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites necessary for starting a programme of graduate studies in environmental chemistry.
Content
The course covers the following topics:
- Complex organic and inorganic processes in aquatic environments
- Substance exchange between air and water and between solid substances and water
- Calculation of complex aquatic systems
- The metabolism of environment-friendly organic chemicals in aquatic systems
- Aquatic chemical kinetics
- The geochemical processes underlying the formation of lakes, seas and running water.
- System analysis and modelling of aquatic systems
- Societal assessment of water pollution
- Charting the direct and indirect effects of aquatic environmental problems
- Evaluation methods for aquatic eco-systems, including the use of thermodynamics
- Substance exchange between aquatic eco-systems and the other elements.
Description of course aim
- To gain in-depth understanding of the chemical, geochemical and biochemical processes occurring in aquatic environments with a view to conducting relevant calculations about these processes.
- To gain solid knowledge about the processes significant for environmental problems in aquatic systems, including the kinetics of such processes.
- To be able to relate the chemical processes occurring in aquatic systems to the other elements of air and soil.
- To be able to carry out environmental control of aquatic systems.
- To understand the relationships between water pollution, water consumption and energy and to evaluate these relationships in a given socio-economic context.
- To be able to chart the direct and indirect effects of aquatic environmental problems.
- To be able to summarise the methods that can be used in the broadest sense to reduce or resolve pollution problems related to aquatic systems.
Student workload
| Hours | |
| Lectures/study groups | 60 |
| Preparation | 75 |
| Project/report | 47 |
| Independent studies incl. examination | 24 |
| Total no. of hours | 206 |
Course director
Kristine A. Krogh, The Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry
