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Course, academic year 2025/2026
  
Environmental models - M240016
Title: Modelování pro ochranu životního prostředí
Guaranteed by: Department of Environmental Chemistry (240)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2024
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:3
E-Credits: winter s.:3
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
Qualifications:  
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Rippelová Veronika Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : N240028
Examination dates   Schedule   
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
The course is focused on introducing multicompartment models. These models are based on the fundamental principles of physical chemistry and are used to predict the distribution and transport of pollutants in the environment (both abiotic and biotic). The knowledge gained from this course can be used to describe the fate and behavior of substances in the environment, address issues of environmental damage, and assist in environmental accidents and risk assessment. Students will work on specific examples that deal with various environmental problems. The course also includes practical demonstrations of selected software for modeling environmental contamination.
Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Attendance at lectures is recommended, but not controlled.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Mackay, Donald. Multimedia environmental models, the fugacity approach. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2001, s. ISBN 1-56670-542-8.
  • Mackay, Donald, Shiu, Wan Ying, Ma, Kuo-Ching, Lee, Sum Chi. Handbook of physical-chemical properties and environmental fate for organic chemicals. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2006, s. ISBN 1-56670-687-4.

Optional:

  • Thibodeaux, Louis J., Mackay, Donald. Handbook of chemical mass transport in the environment. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2011, s. ISBN 978-1-4200-4755-4.
  • Boethling, Robert S., Mackay, Donald. Handbook of property estimation methods for environmental chemicals, environmental and health sciences. Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers, 2000, s. ISBN 1-56670-456-1.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Teaching methods -

Lectures start with a summary of the theory, which is then explained in detail through solving typical examples. Students are actively involved in these discussions to help solve the problems.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

The exam is a written test consisting of five practical problems. Students must propose an appropriate solution method and provide the correct numerical solution for each, with each problem worth a maximum of 10 points. The maximum possible score is 100 points, and the final grades are as follows: A (90-100 points), B (80-89 points), C (70-79 points), D (60-69 points), E (50-59 points), and F (0-49 points). It is possible to complete the partial tests continuously throughout the semester in the e-learning system on the scheduled dates, or take a comprehensive test of the same scope.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Syllabus -

1. The chemodynamics, environment and pollutants, multi-compartments models, data sources

2. The equilibrium distribution of substances in the environment, distribution coefficients

3. The equilibrium in system water-atmosphere, Henry's law

4. The equilibrium in soil environment, sorption coefficients, retardation factor

5. The equilibrium in system water-sediment

6. The equilibrium in natural systems between biotic and abiotic components

7. Transport processes, advection

8. Degradation processes

9. Diffusive transport processes in environment

10. Application of multi-compartments models for remediation technologies

11. Atmospheric deposition, sorption to aerosols, influence of acidic depositions

12. Application of multi-compartments models for risk assessment

13. Transport of pollutants with groundwater through rock environments

14. Introduction to selected programs

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (28.08.2025)
Learning outcomes -

Graduates of this course will be able to apply the principles of physical chemistry to estimate the behavior and fate of chemical substances in the environment. Furthermore, they will be able to search for, select input data, and use basic models to study the distribution and transport of substances in various environmental compartments.

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (29.08.2025)
Registration requirements -

basics of physical chemistry

Last update: Rippelová Veronika (23.01.2018)
Teaching methods
Activity Credits Hours
Účast na přednáškách 1 28
Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování 2 56
3 / 3 84 / 84
Coursework assessment
Form Significance
Examination test 100

 
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