546-0320/03 – Contaminants of the Environment (KontŽP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 5 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2008/2009 | Year of cancellation | 2022/2023 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The identification of pollutants from legislation point of view. Acquire of knowledge on behaviour of pollutants in environment on the basis of their environmental properties (bioaccumalition index, ecotoxicity, Kow). The classification of hazardous components and especially hazardous components in water environment.
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Summary
The aim of the subject "Pollutants in the environment" is introduction to the basic term of environmental chemistry. Th students are acquitants with chemicals and elements, which are present in the environment during impact of anthropogenous activity. The students received the physico-chemical, toxicological properties and information about fate of pollutants in the environment and also their influence on living organisms.
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Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Knowledge tests from lessons (2 x during semester).
E-learning
Other requirements
The basic knowledge of chemistry (level: secondary school).
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Introduction. Environment. The main compounds of the environment. Local end global problems of pollution of environment. Biogeochemical cycles of most important elements.
2.Chemical components – pollutants in the environment. The occurence, fate and influence of pollutants on living organisms, the processes influencing the distribution and fate of pollutants, transport processes.
3.Chemical reaction of pollutants in all environmental components. The phase equilibrium. Kinetics of chemical reactions and thermodynamics.
4.The general group of pollutants. Green house gasses CO2, N2O, CH4 (greenhouse effect). Sources, input, transport, fate in environment, influence on environment.
5.Heavy metals: As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Pb, Hg, Ni, Zn, V, Sn. Sources, input, transport, fate and influence on environment.
6.Organic pollutants. Distribution, classification, volatile organic matter. Sources, input, transport, fate and influence on living organisms.
7.POPs. The basic properties, toxic impacts, classifications. Sources, input, transport, fate and influence on living organisms, toxic properties. The international conventions, Inventory checks of POPs.
8.The properties of individual groups of POPS: PCBs, PAHs, PCDDs/Fs, PCNs, PBDE, PFCs, SCCPs. The source, occurence, presence and reaction.
9.Other groups of pollutants: oil hydrocarbons, detergents, fertilizers, organometallic compounds, radioactive elements. Properties, sources, occurences, the form of presence, reactions, influence on
10.Pollutions of atmosphere. The basis properties of atmosphere, compositions and structure, emmisions, aerosols, reaction of pollutants in atmosphere, dispersion of pollutants in atmosphere, aerosols, acidifications. Ozone layer, the factors influencing of ozone layer.
11.Hydrosphere. Properties, function, classification. Pollutions of hydrosphere, pollutions of sediments.
12.Pedosphere. The composition and properties of soils. The pedogenetic soil factors and processes. Contamination of urban soils, forest soils and agricultural soils.
13.Evaluation of risks connected with presence of pollutants in environment.
14.Limitation of input of pollutants in the environment.
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