Inorganic Pollutants   (521S1)

Academic year:

2019/2020.

Attendance requirements:

102S1

ECTS:

10

Study level:

Study program:

Teacher:

Konstantin B. Ilijević, Ph.D.
assistant professor, Faculty of Chemistry, Studentski trg 12-16, Beograd

Assistants:

—

Hours of instruction:

Weekly: three hours of lectures + five hours of labwork (3+0+5)

Goals:

The main goal of the course Inorganic Pollutants is to help undergraduate students acquire basic knowledge of the properties and behavior of inorganic pollutants which can be found in the atmosphere, water and soil. Furthermore, students learn how pollutants enter the atmosphere, water and soil and about their behavior. Students are also introduced to the basic toxicological properties of these pollutants and the methods for their detection and quantification.

Outcome:

Knowledge of inorganic pollutants enables the student to assess the quality of all media in the environment and environmental burdens and hazards, which is important for working in laboratories in industry, inspections services and institutes. This course provides the student with solid background knowledge which he can later broaden and increase in order to gain knowledge necessary for the assessment and study of the processes in the environment. In the laboratory classes organized within this course students will become familiar with a large number of relevant instrumental techniques used for sample preparation and analysis of inorganic pollutants (microwave digestion, AAS, ICP-OES, WD-XRF), and gain valuable experience of doing practical work using analytical instruments and processing measurement data.

Teaching methods:

Lectures and experimental exercises.

Extracurricular activities:

Collecting literature, preparing for the classes, preparing for progress tests and the exam.

Coursebooks:

Main coursebooks:

1. I. Gržetić: Beleške za predavanja, 2003.
2. D. Veselinović, I. Gržetić, Š. Đarmati, D. Marković: Fizičkohemijske osnove zaštite životne sredine - knjiga I: Stanja i procesi u životnoj sredini, Fakultet za Fizičku hemiju, Beograd, 1995. (506 pages) ISBN 86-8213-11-1
3. D. Marković, Š. Đarmati, I. Gržetić, D. Veselinović: Fizičkohemijske osnove zaštite životne sredine - knjiga II: Izvori zagađivanja posledice i zaštita, Univerzitet u Beogradu, Beograd, 1996. (552 pages) ISBN 86-81019-27-9

Supplementary coursebooks:

• S. Manaham: Environmental Chemistry, 5th ed, Lewis Publishers, 1991-2000. (583 pages) ISBN 0-87371-425-3

Additional material:

http://helix.chem.bg.ac.rs/~grzetic/predavanja/

Lectures:

10 points (3 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1. Introduction. The abundance of elements.
2. The classification of inorganic pollutants.
3. Toxic inorganic pollutants.
4. Carcinogenic pollutants.
5. Radioactive inorganic pollutants.
6. Health risks from inorganic pollutants.
7. Inorganic pollutants in water.
8. The behavior of inorganic pollutants in water - Eh-pH diagrams.
9. Inorganic pollutants in the atmosphere.
10. Inorganic pollutants in soil.
11. Sampling.
12. Sample preparation.
13. An overview of the methods used for the detection of inorganic pollutants.
14. Selecting the most adequate method of analysis (based on the pollutant, based on the substrate, based on the sensitivity of the method).
15. Presenting the results of an analysis.

Labwork:

10 points (5 hours a week)

Syllabus:

1. The translation of a specialized text from English into Serbian.
2. Dry digestion.
3. Taking and preparing soil samples.
4. The comparison of several methods of wet digestion of soil.
5. Sequential extraction.
6. Collecting and preparing river water samples.
7. Analysis and speciation of metals in river water.
8. Determination of recovery and evaluation of the methods for water samples conservation.
9. Microwave digestion.
10. AAS analysis of metals.
11. AES analysis of metals.
12. ICP analysis of metals.
13. XRF analysis of metals.

Colloquia:

20 points

Oral exam:

60 points