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Properties of the Environment and its Components

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0181/01
Abbreviation SŽP
Course title Properties of the Environment and its Components
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction to the issue. Basic concepts and relationships describing the behavior and fate of chemicals in the environment (environmental interface and chemical balance, persistence in the environment, environmental equilibria, transport in components and between components of the environment).
2. Chemical and biochemical processes taking place in nature. Bioaccumulation, bioenrichment, biodegradation, biotransformation.
3. Introduction to the study of the origin of reactions, transport, influencing and extinction of chemical substances in the atmosphere, soil and water and human influence on these processes. Substance flows in the environment - natural and anthropogenically influenced
4. Basic physico-chemical properties of substances and environmental-chemical properties of individual components of the environment influencing the fate of substances in the environment. Possibilities of limiting the entry of contaminants into the environment and their elimination.
5. Basic processes influencing the fate of chemical substances in the environment (sorption, accumulation,…), transport processes of chemical substances in individual components of the environment (movement in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, pedosphere and biosphere).
6. Basic transformation processes in the environment (oxidation and reduction, photochemical reactions, hydrolysis, biotransformation ..).
7. Distribution of substances in the environment, phase equilibria and interfacial transitions. Modeling the fate and distribution of chemicals in the environment at the local, regional and global levels.
8. Biogeochemical cycles: main elements C, O, N, P, S, K, Fe, Mn, Ca, Al, trace elements; The movement of chemical elements between organisms and inanimate parts of the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere
9. Lithosphere - definition, composition; substance flows, physical and chemical processes.
10. Pedosphere - definition, composition, substance flows; chemical, physico-chemical processes. Soil pollution - primary, secondary, metals, nutrients, organic pollutants. Biosphere - basic characteristics, exposure of organisms, its consequences.
11. Hydrosphere - definition, hydrological cycle - material flows, chemical, physico-chemical processes; anthropogenic influences. Pollution of the hydrosphere. Water and its function, chemical composition, hydrological cycle. Types of pollution: petroleum substances, detergents, radioactive substances, inorganic and organic pollutants, artificial fertilizers, pesticides.
12.Atmosphere - definition, composition, substance flows, physical, chemical, physico-chemical processes. Atmospheric pollution. Basic properties of the atmosphere related to the dispersion of pollutants (temperature stratification, temperature, pressure, humidity). Natural chemical composition of the atmosphere.
13. Atmosphere - Pollutants, emissions, immissions, transport and dispersion of pollutants, sources of pollution in terms of origin, distribution and time. Primary and secondary pollution, values ​​of NPK, Kmax, Kd. Reactions of pollutants in the atmosphere, photochemical reactions. Smog oxidizing and reducing.

Literature

NELSON EBY, G. Principles of Environmental Chemistry. USA: Thomson Brooks-Cole, 2004. 510 s. ISBN 0-122-29061-5
MANAHAN, Stanley E. Environmental chemistry. 9th ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2010. ISBN 1420059203 
PERTILE Eva, Peter FEČKO et al. Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Content in the Sediments of Water-bearing Subsidence Throughs in the Karviná Region. Journal of Mining and Metallurgy, An international journal for theory and practice of mining and metallurgy, Section A: Mining, Bor: Technical Faculty and Copper Institute Bor, 2009, 45(1), 88-95. ISSN 1450-5959 
CHANG R. Chemistry. 10th Edition. McGraw-Hill: New York, 2010. 1170 p. Dostupné z: https://archive.org/details/Chemistry_10th_Edition_Raymond_Chang

Advised literature

BAIRD, Colin a Michael C. CANN. Environmental chemistry. 5th ed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company, c2012. ISBN 978-1429277044 
BASTIOLI C. Handbook of Biodegradable Polymers. 2005, p. 533, ISBN 978-1-85957-389-1 
SMOLIŃSKI, A., DOMBEK, V., PERTILE, E. et al. An analysis of self-ignition of mine waste dumps in terms of environmental protection in industrial areas in Poland. Sci Rep 11, 8851 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88470-7
PERTILE, Eva, Tomáš DVORSKÝ, Vojtěch VÁCLAVÍK a Silvie HEVIÁNKOVÁ. Use of Different Types of Biosorbents to Remove Cr (VI) from Aqueous Solution. Life. 2021, 11(3). ISSN 2075-1729 . Dostupné z: doi:10.3390/life11030240