- 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)
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
Air pollutants, in the hydrosphere, in the soil, in the biosphere
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
Historical and contemporary pollutants: relationship between ancient and modern technologies
Integrated methodologies for studying pollution phenomena
Readings/Bibliography
• Colin Baird , Michael Cann
CHIMICA AMBIENTALE, Terza edizione, 2013, (Zanichelli ed.) ISBN: 9788808170408
Research articles in this field of science
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons and individual study
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Powerpoint Slides and case studies treated by the teacher
Office hours
See the website of Laura Tositti
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.