1. Introduction. Basic terms and definitions.
2. Origin and fate of pollutants in the environment I - general introduction. Environmental interface and chemical equilibrium. Relationship between chemical structure and reactivity.
3. Origin and fate of pollutants in environment II - Classes of compounds included in the list of priority pollutants. New environmental pollutants.
4. The fate of chemicals in the environment - transport, transformation - basic concepts and relations.
5. Biogeochemical cycles of macrobiotic and microbiogenic elements and important pollutants.
6. Atmospheric pollution and its consequences. Sources and transformation. Smog and its types. PMx. Acidic/dry deposition.
7. Organic compounds in the troposphere: Occurrence of organic compounds in the troposphere. Volatile organic compounds in the troposphere - environmental characteristics of group representatives; degradation processes in the troposphere of selected pollutants.
8. Persistent organic compounds in the troposphere - environmental characteristics of group representatives. Global importance of POPs occurrence in the environment, fate and transport in the environment, deposition of POPs. International Conventions. Inventory POPs
9. Potentially toxic metals in the air: environmental characteristics of PTK and their entry into the environment. Transformation processes of metals in the environment.
10. Organochlorinated pesticides in the troposphere: introduction, environmental characteristics of some important organochlorinated pesticides.
11. Pollution of the pedosphere. Main pollutants occurring in soil and their environmental characteristics. Interaction of pollutants with soil component. Transformation of pollutants in the pedosphere. Distribution of chemicals in soil - diffusion and leaching. Primary and secondary soil pollution.
12. Pollution of the hydrosphere. Chemical reactions in waters, hydrolytic reactions, equilibria in waters (protolytic, complex-forming, precipitation, dissolution, redox). The most common pollutants involved in hydrosphere pollution.
13. Bottom sediments, origin, water-sediment equilibrium, sedimentation, sorption on the sediment surface.
14. Landfills as possible sources of contamination of environmental components.
2. Origin and fate of pollutants in the environment I - general introduction. Environmental interface and chemical equilibrium. Relationship between chemical structure and reactivity.
3. Origin and fate of pollutants in environment II - Classes of compounds included in the list of priority pollutants. New environmental pollutants.
4. The fate of chemicals in the environment - transport, transformation - basic concepts and relations.
5. Biogeochemical cycles of macrobiotic and microbiogenic elements and important pollutants.
6. Atmospheric pollution and its consequences. Sources and transformation. Smog and its types. PMx. Acidic/dry deposition.
7. Organic compounds in the troposphere: Occurrence of organic compounds in the troposphere. Volatile organic compounds in the troposphere - environmental characteristics of group representatives; degradation processes in the troposphere of selected pollutants.
8. Persistent organic compounds in the troposphere - environmental characteristics of group representatives. Global importance of POPs occurrence in the environment, fate and transport in the environment, deposition of POPs. International Conventions. Inventory POPs
9. Potentially toxic metals in the air: environmental characteristics of PTK and their entry into the environment. Transformation processes of metals in the environment.
10. Organochlorinated pesticides in the troposphere: introduction, environmental characteristics of some important organochlorinated pesticides.
11. Pollution of the pedosphere. Main pollutants occurring in soil and their environmental characteristics. Interaction of pollutants with soil component. Transformation of pollutants in the pedosphere. Distribution of chemicals in soil - diffusion and leaching. Primary and secondary soil pollution.
12. Pollution of the hydrosphere. Chemical reactions in waters, hydrolytic reactions, equilibria in waters (protolytic, complex-forming, precipitation, dissolution, redox). The most common pollutants involved in hydrosphere pollution.
13. Bottom sediments, origin, water-sediment equilibrium, sedimentation, sorption on the sediment surface.
14. Landfills as possible sources of contamination of environmental components.