Study-unit ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
Course name | Chemical sciences |
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Study-unit Code | A000222 |
Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
Lecturer | Aldo Romani |
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CFU | 6 |
Course Regulation | Coorte 2022 |
Supplied | 2022/23 |
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Learning activities | Caratterizzante |
Area | Discipline chimiche analitiche e ambientali |
Sector | CHIM/12 |
Type of study-unit | Obbligatorio (Required) |
Type of learning activities | Attività formativa monodisciplinare |
Language of instruction | English |
Contents | In the course, an introduction to chemical and physical behaviors of the environmental compartments will be presented. Study of water, atmosphere and soil's chemistry and main pollutants will be performed, together with notes on some biofuels and their environmental implications |
Reference texts | "Chimica dell'ambiente" di Stanley E. Manahan, Edizione italiana a cura di Lelio Zoccolillo, Editore: Piccin Nuova Libraria S.p:A., Padova "Ecologia Applicata" di Renato Vismara, Biblioteca Scientifica Hoepli, Editore: Ulrico Hoepli S.p.A. - Milano Appunti di lezione |
Educational objectives | Students attending the course know: the chemical-physical average composition of the three environmental spheres, the nature and properties of main potential pollutants and the principles on which are based the interventions focused to monitoring, prevention and remediation of environmental pollution phenomena, both chronic and acute. Based on this knowledge they will be able to: identify what may be the main sources of pollution and the major consequences on the ecosystem equilibrium; program the actions to be done in order to prevent and/or remedy any environmental damage. |
Prerequisites | The topics covered in the course are, by their very nature, multidisciplinary. The student has to have a good knowledge of the three basic chemical disciplines (organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry and physical chemistry) to attend the Course profitable |
Teaching methods | The course is organized with lectures on all subjects of the program. During the Laboratory CFU, 2-4 hours didactic visits in laboratories and plants and / or exercises in the processing of analytical data from environmental monitoring involved in environmental problematic will be planne |
Other information | N.N. |
Learning verification modality | The exam consists of an oral test of sufficient duration to ascertain the level of knowledge and understanding acquired by the student on the contents of the program |
Extended program | Physical and chemical characteristics of environmental sections Hydrosphere Atmosphere Geosphere and soil Fundamentals of aquatic chemistry and biochemistry Nature of aquatic polluting Water inorganic polluting: heavy metals, ions and their chemical behavior Organic polluting and micro-polluting Water treatments Atmosphere and atmospheric chemistry Chemical and photochemical reactions Acid-base reactions in the atmosphere Oxygen, nitrogen and nitrogen compounds reactions in the atmosphere Ozone reactions Primary polluting and their environmental effects Secondary polluting and their formation Organic polluting and their activity in the atmosphere Photochemical smog Acid rains Ozone distribution in the stratosphere Particles in the atmosphere and their formation Greenhouse gases Soil chemistry Nature and main sources of soil polluting Agriculture connect pollution Waste pollution Chemical behaviors of soil polluting Outline of biofuels |