Environmental Chemistry and Environmental Analysis

11B2143

Bachelor

German

5.0

only summer term

This module is only offered in the summer semester

1 semester

The aim of environmental engineering is the planning, construction and operation of environmental technology systems to prevent environmental pollution. The basis for this includes knowledge in the fields of environmental chemistry and environmental analysis. This course provides a comprehensive basic knowledge of environmental chemistry and analysis. In the subject area of environmental chemistry, the processes occurring in the environmental compartments water, soil and air are discussed and the properties of selected chemicals and their effect on the compartments water, soil and air are presented. The topic of environmental analysis deals with selected analytical methods that are suitable for characterising the water, air and soil compartments and for checking legally prescribed limit values. The concept of standardised analytical methods and the problems of representative sampling and sample preparation are also discussed. The evaluation and assessment of analysis results is practised using examples.

1. Chemistry of the environmental compartments water, soil, air

2. Properties of selected chemicals and their effect on the compartments

3. Fundamentals of environmental analysis (sampling, sample preparation, analytical methods for characterising the environmental compartments)

4. Laboratory exercises

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Written examination or
• oral exam or
• Homework / Assignment

• Field work / Experimental work

The examiners choose the type of examination from the options provided and inform the students at the beginning of the semester.

Graded examination
- Written examination: see applicable study regulations
- Oral examination: see applicable General Part of the Examination Regulations (ATPO)
- Term paper: approx. 10 pages

Ungraded examination
- Experimental work: 2-4 experiments

This module assumes knowledge of maths, balancing, chemistry and thermodynamics.

Students who have successfully completed this module have comprehensive basic knowledge in the fields of environmental chemistry and analysis. They are familiar with the processes that take place in the water, soil and air compartments, as well as the properties of important environmental pollutants and their influence on the compartments. Students are informed about the main methods of environmental analysis and the importance of representative sampling and sample preparation.

Students can explain the effect of relevant pollutants on the compartments water, soil and air as well as the suitability of environmental analytical methods for determining these pollutants, taking into account analytical standard regulations.

Students know the main important chemical processes that take place in the environmental compartments and are able to assess the influence of pollutants. They are familiar with environmental analytical measurement methods and their physicochemical principles. They are able to critically assess the results of analyses.

Students will be able to assess environmental stress caused by pollutants. They will be able to select environmental analysis methods as an instrument for the objective evaluation of environmental situations on the basis of standard regulations and legal requirements.

Students can contribute to projects to develop new methods for analysing environmentally relevant substances.

Students are able to develop solutions to selected problems and are able to justify these in discourse with subject representatives and non-specialists using theoretically and methodologically arguments.

Students will be able to understand and apply novel or advanced methods for recording and analysing environmental chemicals.

• Frieling, Petra

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