- Docente: Vanes Poluzzi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: CHIM/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences (cod. 8878)
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from Nov 06, 2025 to Dec 18, 2025
Learning outcomes
The studen will know the theoretical aspects, the instrumental techniques and the methods to make a compositional analysis of chemical systems from the biological and antropological sources in the environment.
Course contents
Main thermodynamic principles and cinetics chemistry aspects;
Chemistry of the water, and problem tied with their pollution;
Concentraztions of principal pollutants;
Assesment of the environmental state in reference with the laws;
Main aspects of antropic pressure on the water;
Main aspects of physical-chemistry of the atmosphere;
Pollution of the troposphere under different formation and development conditions;
Primary and secondary pollutants: NOx, O3, CO, SO2, Aerosols;
Global warming pollutants;
Ozonosphere;
Emissiony inventory: main sectors;
Mass flow mass calculations;
Sampling and analysis methods of pollutnts;
Measures unit for the p different pollutants;
Models for the simulation of air quality.
Readings/Bibliography
Chimica Ambientale - Colina Baird, Michael Cann - Zanichelli
Slides of the lessons, prof. Vanes Poluzzi
Teaching methods
The course is organized with frontal lessons.
Assessment methods
the final test (exam) is dobne t o evaluate the reaching of the educational objectives:
- knowledge of the main chemical pissues in the environment;
- knowledge of the main sampling and analysis methods of air and water;
- knowledge of the main environmental laws;
The exam will be written with multiple choice tests.
Students with learning disabilities (LD) or temporary or permanent disabilities: please contact the relevant University Office promptly (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/it). This office will advise the students concerned of any accommodations, which must be submitted to the instructor for approval at least 15 days in advance, who will evaluate their suitability also in relation to the educational objectives of the course.
Teaching tools
The educational material will be made available to the student in electronic format;
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Office hours
See the website of Vanes Poluzzi