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Following on from the previous course in environmental chemistry, this course provides further insights into the fate of substances in individual components of the environment and related processes. This course focuses on the mechanisms of behavior of organic substances, including organic pollutants, as well as other contaminants such as heavy metals and greenhouse gases, and their importance in monitoring the state of the environment. Previously acquired knowledge of general processes is developed in this course towards its application to specific environmental issues such as climate change, acidification, salinization, eutrophication, the ozone depletion, and urban smog. In the exercises, students will apply their theoretical knowledge in basic methods of modeling the distribution of contaminants between individual components. The course also touches more on the practical application of this knowledge. After completing the course, students will fully understand all related phenomena and will be able to easily work with primary input information in all necessary contexts when effectively solving engineering problems in their further studies or in practice.
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Completion of the assigned tasks within the associated e-learning course is required for completing the course and for admission to the exam. Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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R: Odpady a jejich zpracování, Mečislav Kuraš, Vodní zdroje Ekomonitor spol. s r.o., 2014, ISBN: 978-80-86832-80-7 D: http://www.mzp.cz/cz/odpadove_hospodarstvi Last update: Cibulková Jana (24.03.2025)
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The basic principles of environmental chemistry are explained in lectures with frontal teaching supplemented by multimedia illustrative elements, in which students are interactively involved both in the form of discussions on real model examples of environmental problems from practice and with the help of online gamification tools. The lectures are accompanied by an e-learning course that includes multimedia study aids and interactive tasks for independent practice of the exercise content. As part of the exercises, students apply basic physico-chemical models to solve case studies from environmental protection, for example prediction of the distribution of contamination across its components, and learn to use specialized software to solve these problems. Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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The credit will be awarded upon completion of the assigned independent tasks within the e-learning course. The exam consists of a written test and an oral part. The oral part can only be taken after obtaining at least 50 points in the written part. The test is graded on a standard scale: 100–90 points – A, 89–80 points – B, 79–70 points – C, 69–60 points – D, 59–50 points – E, 49–0 points – F. The oral exam is conducted in the form of a dialogue based on exam topics provided in advance. Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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1. Fundamentals of hydrogeology – groundwater in a vertical profile, flow in saturated and unsaturated zones, types of aquifers, Darcy's law, atmogeochemistry 2. Soil organic matter, its characterization, properties, and classification, organomineral complex, transformation of organic components in soil, soil organisms, and biological processes 3. Natural organic matter (NOM) in water - types of substances, properties, origin and significance, humic substances, phenolic compounds 4. Organic pollutants in water - petroleum substances, surfactants, complexing agents, groups of micropollutants, their origin, properties and interactions in water 5. Dissolved oxygen in water, oxygen indicators COD and BOD, self-purification of natural waters, oxygen regime 6. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere – their origin and formation, transformation reactions and processes 7. Tropospheric reactions – formation of hydroxyl and hydroperoxyl radicals, photochemical reactions, acid-base reactions in the atmosphere 8. Nutrients and their biochemical transformations, eutrophication of water, mechanisms, regulatory measures, monitoring 9. Geochemical cycles of elements (C, N, P, S, Ca, K, Na, Mg) – sources, forms of occurrence, geochemical transformations and processes, impacts of climate change on soil, soil acidification and salinization 10. Pollutants in water – toxic metals (Cd, Hg, Pb, As), radioactive contamination, organoleptic defects, chlorination by-products 11. Geochemistry of metals and organic contaminants – origin, importance, reactions and processes in soil, soil protection and decontamination 12. Water quality for irrigation, fish farming, recreation, etc., corrosion of building materials, tracer tests, impact of climate change on the hydrosphere 13. Ozone chemistry - ozone formation, disruption of the stratospheric ozone layer and its recovery, ground-level ozone 14. Reactions of pollutants in the air – sources of pollution, formation and types of smog, conditions for smog formation and its impacts Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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After successfully completing the course, students will be able to describe in detail the chemical and related physical processes associated with specific environmental protection issues that graduates of the program will address in their environmental engineering practice. In addition to understanding all the relevant contexts, they will be prepared to work with available information, including data for various practical applications of environmental chemistry, such as environmental impact and status assessments, risk analyses, environmental analyses and monitoring, or modeling of substance transport in the environment, etc., and to perform basic calculations for the preparation of background materials for specific decisions, e.g., by administrative authorities or companies providing engineering services. administrative authorities or companies within the framework of engineering services. Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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Fundamentals in mathematics, physics, general inorganic and organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and biochemistry Environmental chemistry I Last update: Kroužek Jiří (30.04.2025)
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Fundamentals in mathematics, physics, general inorganic and organic chemistry, physical chemistry, and biochemistry Environmental chemistry I Last update: Bindzar Jan (22.05.2025)
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