546-0462/01 – Pollutants in the Environment (PolŽP)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 3 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc. |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory |
| Year | 2 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2006/2007 | Year of cancellation | 2014/2015 |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Follow-up Master |
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 (bioaccumulation index, ecotoxicity, Kow). The classification of hazardous components and especially hazardous components in water environment.
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Summary
The aim of this course "Pollutants in the Environment" is to acquaint students with the group of compounds which have significant impact on health of inhabitants or influences the health state of ecosystems. The attention is paid to the form of occurrence and their bonding in the environment, physico-chemical properties and reactions, the procedure from the moment of their detection to the assessment of their adverse effects (risk analysis). Pollutants characteristic for individual components of environment will be defined. The attention will also be paid to compounds which occur in municipal waste waters: human and animal medicaments (hormonal preparates, medicaments for suppression of a high blood pressure, antibiotics, antidepressives, analgetics, statines etc.) components of cosmetic products, perfumes, saponates etc., and their degradation products or metabolites (in summary PPCP – Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products) which are transferred by "purified" waste waters discharged by Waste Water Treatment Plant into aqueous environment where they can influence present organism.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Colbeck I. (2008): Environmental chemistry of aerosls. John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, UK, 1-272
Šráček O., Čerík M., Vencelides Z. (2013): Applications of Geochemical and reactive Transport Modeling in Hydrogeology. Vydavatelství UPOL.1-121.
Additional study materials
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
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Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Introduction. Environment. The main compounds of the environment. Local end global problems of pollution of environment. Biogeochemical cycles of most important elements.
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.
Chemical reaction of pollutants in all environmental components. The phase equilibrium. Kinetics of chemical reactions and thermodynamics.
The main groups of pollutants. Greenhouse gasses – sources, input, transport, fate and influence on environment.
Heavy metals: As, Cd, Cr, Co, Cu, Pb, Hg, Ni, Zn, V, Sn. Sources, input, transport, fate and influence on environment.
Organic pollutants. Distribution, classification, volatile organic matter. Sources, input, transport, fate and influence on living organisms.
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.
The properties of individual groups of POPS: PCBs, PAHs, PCDDs/Fs, PCNs, PBDE, PFCs, SCCPs. The source, occurence, presence and reaction.
Other groups of pollutants: oil hydrocarbons, detergents, fertilizers, organometallic compounds, radioactive elements. Properties, sources, occurences, the form of presence, reactions, influence on
Pollutions of atmosphere. The basis properties of atmosphere, compositions and structure, immisions, aerosols, reaction of pollutants in atmosphere, dispersion of pollutants in atmosphere, aerosols, acidifications. Ozone layer, the factors influencing of ozone layer.
Hydrosphere. Properties, function, classification. Pollutions of hydrosphere, pollutions of sediments.
Pedosphere. The composition and properties of soils. The pedogenetic soil factors and processes. Contamination of urban soils, forest soils and agricultural soils.
Evaluation of risks connected with presence of pollutants in environment.
Limitation of input of pollutants in the environment.
Conditions for subject completion
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