Chemical Principles in Environmental Engineering | Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Chemical Principles in Environmental Engineering (17.Z109)

Native organizations units: Department of Environmental Engineering and Occupational Safety and Health

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Environmental Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Environment Protection Engineering
ECTS	8

Introducing students of technical profession to the basic chemical principles in environmental engineering.

After completing the course and passing the exam, the student will be able to: Define and apply fundamental chemical principles and understand great number of chemical processes and reaction phenomena important to the field of Environmental engineering.

Basic principles of the green chemistry.Types and characterization of organic compounds. Chemistry of organic reactions. Classification of organic pollutants. Toxicology of organic compounds. Coordination compounds. Colloidal systems in the environment. Basic principles of analytic chemistry. Qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Elements of the main group of the periodic table, compounds and chemical reactions: hydrogen, IA and IIA group; IIIA and IVA group; VA and VIA group; VIIA group. Elements of the sub-groups: IB (Cu, Ag, Au), IIB (Zn, Cd, Hg), VIB (Cr, Mo, W) and VIIB (Mn) and elements of the Fe triad: Fe, Co, Ni. Transformation processes and classes of the inorganic contaminants.

Lectures. Laboratory and Computing Practice. Consultations – individual and group. During the semester, students are required to attend lectures, laboratory and computing classes. After successfully realized examination prerequisites, students take the final exam in written (computing part) and oral form (theoretical part). Written part of the exam can be quarterly taken through the two colloquiums.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Vanloon, G.W., Duffy, S.J.	Environmental chemistry : a global perspective	2011	Oxford University Press, Oxford	English
Monk, P.	Maths for Chemistry	2006	Oxford University Press, New York	English
A. Burrew et al.	Chemistry3	1999	Oxford University Press Inc., New York	English
Atkins, P., Jones, L.	Chemical Principles	2010	W. H. Freeman, New York	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Coloquium exam	No	No	20.00
Coloquium exam	No	No	20.00
Complex exercises	Yes	Yes	20.00
Practical part of the exam - tasks	No	Yes	40.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	30.00