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Course, academic year 2022/2023
  
Top Trends Analysis of Environment - P240005
Title: Moderní analytické metody složek životního prostředí
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2019 to 2023
Semester: both
Points: 0
E-Credits: 0
Examination process:
Hours per week, examination: 3/0, other [HT]
Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (unknown)
summer:unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course is intended for doctoral students only
can be fulfilled in the future
you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
Guarantor: Janků Josef doc. Ing. CSc.
Classification: Chemistry > Analytical Chemistry
Is interchangeable with: AP240005
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course will cover the progressive strategies of sampling, sample pretreatment techniques as well as the modern instrumental analytical techniques, including introduction to the portable devices. Significant attention will be directed to the complex solid heterogeneous materials, such as waste and soils.
Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Oral examination or assessed presentation of the given topic

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Literature -

A: Soil sampling and methods of Analysis. Editor: Marin R Carter. Lewis Publisher

A: United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Taxonomy: A Basic system of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys, Second Edition, Washington, 1999.

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Teaching methods -

Lecturers, tutorials, self-study

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

Processing a research on a given topic.

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Syllabus -

Characterization of solid waste categories, production and composition

Accuracy of analyses, sources of errors, types of controls, scope of analyses

Manipulation and treatment of solid waste samples

Analysis of municipal solid waste

Evaluation of chemical waste

Soils - indicators and standards

Rapid analytical methods

Analysis of contaminated solid matrices in stable laboratories

Analysis in field conditions

Headspace analyses

Colorimetric methods - chemisorption

Volatile organic compounds - aliphatic, aromatic, halogenated and other volatiles

Heavy metals, problematic organic compounds (PCBs, pesticides, herbicides)

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Learning resources -

https://www.webofscience.com/

https://www.scopus.com/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Learning outcomes -

The students will manage to:

  • effectively apply basic and progressive analysis of solid waste and of solid materials
  • select proper sampling strategies as well as suitable analytical approaches
  • independently evaluate the analytical data

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Entry requirements -

None

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
Registration requirements -

None

Last update: Martinec Marek (08.10.2025)
 
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