Course code:
1515S		 Course name:
Chemodynamics of Pollutants

Academic year:

2012/2013.

Attendance requirements:

1102S + 1202A

ECTS:

7

Study level:

basic academic studies

Study program:

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

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:

Major goal of this course is to familiarize students with the most important sources of pollutants in the environment, their anthropogenic and natural sources, classification and nomenclature, transfers of pollutants and products of their transformations between different phases, mechanisms of transformation and spreading in atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, as well as mechanisms of disappearance from environment, ways and consequences of their interaction with biota and humans.

Outcome:

This course should result in further deepening of student’s understanding of complexity of environmental processes as well as his or her ability to predict and/or reconstruct the spreading of pollutants and the ways of their elimination from environment, based on their characteristics.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and labwork.

Extracurricular activities:

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Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

  1. D. W. Connell: Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry, Lewis Publishers, 1997.
  2. A. L. Andradi: Plastics in the Environment, Wiley Interscience, 2003.

Supplementary coursebooks:

  1. P. J. Craig: Organometalic Compounds in the Environment, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.
  2. P. E. T. Douben: PAHs: An Ecotoxicological Perspective, John Wiley and Sons, 2003.

Additional material:

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  Course activities and grading method

Lectures:

0 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Processes of transformation and degradation in environment.
  2. Toxicology.
  3. Distribution of different substances in the environment.
  4. Genotoxicity.
  5. Chemodynamics of petroleum hydrocarbons.
  6. Chemodynamics of PCBs and dioxins.
  7. Chemodynamics of polymers.
  8. Chemodynamics of pesticides.
  9. Chemodynamics of PAHs.
  10. Chemodynamics of constituents of soaps and detergents.
  11. Chemodynamics of organometal compounds.
  12. Cycles and chemodynamics of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen.
  13. Cycles and chemodynamics of sulphur and phosphorus.
  14. Cycles and chemodynamics of arsenic, lead and mercury.
  15. Speciation of pollutants. Speciation based on oxidation states, bond characteristics and substrates.

Labwork:

0 points (4 hours a week)

Syllabus:

  1. Determination of petroleum hydrocarbons in surface water samples.
  2. Determination of synthetic polymer degradation products.
  3. Determination of pesticide residues in soil samples.
  4. Determination of PAHs in food samples.
  5. Eutrophication.
  6. Sequential extraction.

Semester papers:

10 points

Colloquia:

30 points

Written exam:

60 points