Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Physical and Chemical Principles (17.Z507)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Environmental engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Environment Protection Engineering
ECTS	6

-To provide students knowledge about the equilibrium and dynamic processes in the heterogeneous multicomponent system on the surface of interacting phases -To develop students the ability to actively use modern experimental, numerical and physico-chemical methods -To develop students the ability to constantly expand and search for new knowledge in a complex interdisciplinary field of Environmental Engineering - To develop students skills in communication, written and oral presentations of project tasks

At the end of the course, students should be able to: - Explain distribution of pollutants between different environmental media based on their physico-chemical characteristics, -Evaluate analytical results by one of the statistical softwares (eg Excel), - Make written report on the experimental results of laboratory processes - Write a seminar work and orally present the results using the Prezi or Power Point software

Chemical thermodynamics and kinetics. The complex interactions between soil, water, air and biosphere. Precipitation and dissolution. Persistence and degradation processes in the environment. Physico-chemical processes at interfaces. Interaction between solid and liquid phases, solid and gaseous and liquid and gaseous phases. Concepts of contamination of the hydrosphere and the processes of physico-chemical treatment. New materials and nanomolecules. Molecular interactions. Photochemical processes. Rate and kinetics of complex reactions. Principles of colloidal systems. Physico-chemical processes in the function of Environmental Engineering.

Lectures. Laboratory exercises. During the semester, students are required to attend lectures and exercises, and to present experimental results of laboratory exercises in the form of reports. After successfully completed pre-exam requirements, students take to the final exam consisting of two parts: written and oral. The written exam can be taken in the form of two tests.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Klečka, G. et al.	Evaluation of Persistence and Long-Range Transport of Organic Chemicals in the Environment	2000	Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC), Pensacola	English
G. W. VanLoon, S. Daphy	Environmental Chemistry	2011	Oxford University press	English
Peter Atkins, Julio De Paula	Atkin Physical Chemistry	2006	Oxford University Press	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Term paper	Yes	Yes	20.00
Coloquium exam	No	No	20.00
Coloquium exam	No	No	20.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	40.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00