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Contaminants of the Environment

Summary

The aim of the subject "Pollutants in the environment" is introduction to the basic term of environmental chemistry. Th students are acquitants with chemicals and elements, which are present in the environment during impact of anthropogenous activity. The students received the physico-chemical, toxicological properties and information about fate of pollutants in the environment and also their influence on living organisms.

Literature

Lipnick L. (2002): Chemicals in the environment: fate, impacts and remediation. American Chemical Society, 1-508.
Lancaste M. (2010): Green chemistry: an introductory text. Cambridge Royal Society of Chemistry, 2nd Edition.
Schecter A. (2012): Dioxins and health including other persistant organic pollutants and endocrine disruptors. 3rd Edition. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-470-60529-5 , 1-680.
Walker D. (2011): Fuels and the environment. Evans Brothers, 1-288.

Advised literature

Des Connell: Basic Concepts of Environmental Chemistry. 2nd.ed Boca Raton:
Francis Group, 462s. ISBN 978-1-5667-0676-6. 2005.
Loon, G.W., Duffy, S.J. Environmental chemistry. A global perspective. 2nd ed.
Oxford University Press. 514s. ISBN-10: 0-19-927499-1. 2005.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, čeština, čeština
Code 546-0320
Abbreviation KontŽP
Course title Contaminants of the Environment
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc.