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The students gain advanced knowledge of various classes of environmental pollutants, their pathways through different ecosystems, and know the current scientific discussion. The students can apply their knowledge to environmental-chemical processes including transfer, transformation, and transport of pollutants; they can predict the fate of organic and inorganic chemicals and judge their relevance for transport, enrichment, toxicity and bioavailability with regard to current scientific problems. The students know the main processes, which are responsible for the transport of mass and energy within environmental systems and across environmental interfaces. They become familiar with the mathematical description of transport, reaction, and physicochemical processes and are able to estimate transport and turnover rates in basic applications.
Contents
- Entry routes and distribution of chemicals in the environment
- Physiochemical properties, structure–activity relationships, and parameterization of compound properties of organic and inorganic compound classes on the basis of current physicochemical models
- Chemistry of transfer and transformation processes in the environmental compartments soil, water, and air and their mathematical description
- Compound classes (persistent organic pollutants, organic pesticides, metals etc.)
Basic and advanced reading
- Hites, R. (2007): Elements of Environmental Chemistry. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
- Schwarzenbach, R.P. (2002): Environmental Organic Chemistry. J. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken.
- Walker, C.H., Hopkin, S.P., Sibly, R.M., Peakall, D.B. (2005): Principles of Ecotoxicology. Taylor & Francis, New York.
- Monteith, J.L., Unsworth, M.H. (2008): Environmental Physics. Academic Press, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
- Okubo, A., Levin, S.A. (2001): Diffusion and Ecological Problems: Modern Perspectives. Springer-Verlag, New York, Berlin, Heidelberg.
- Dill, K.A., Bromberg, S. (2010): Molecular driving forces: Statistical thermodynamics in chemistry & biology. Taylor & Francis
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