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91677 - Chemistry and Control of Pollutants

Academic Year 2021/2022

                
                        Docente:
                        Laura Tositti
                    
                        Credits:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        CHIM/12
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            First cycle degree programme (L) in
                            Chemistry and Materials Chemistry (cod. 8006)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student will be capable to recognise contaminants and pollutants in the various environmental compartments (air, water, soil, biota) according to the present regulations including the standardized methodologies required by the regulation themselves.

Sources of pollution and environmental fate concept will be addressed

Practical advice about how to sample and analyse environmental matrices in order to obtain the maximum compositional/environmental information will be given

Course contents

Purpose and scope of environmental legislation
European environmental legislation

Concept of pollutant, contaminant and environmental background (natural and non-natural)

Conservative and non-conservative chemical species

Environmental fate of pollutants - role of fluids (air and water)

Air pollutants, in the hydrosphere, in the soil, in the biosphere, in sediments

Analytical requirements in the environmental field (concept of environmental matrix, detection and quantification limits, practical precautions in the laboratory). Representation of the environmental sample - Types of datasets - spot samples, time series samples

The concept of environmental monitoring

relationships between ECHAM and REACH, their relationships with environment and health

Historical and contemporary pollutants: relationship between ancient and modern technologies

Integrated methodologies for studying pollution phenomena