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Ukončeno v akademickém roce 2018/2019

Environmental Geochemistry

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0424/03
Abbreviation ENGCH
Course title Environmental Geochemistry
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc.

Osnova předmětu

1.Material and energy flows in the system: the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere.
2.Methods for indetification of geochemical background.
3.Biogenic and anthropogenic components of the environment.
4.Natural cycles of nitrogen, sulphur, carbon, and their influence by human activities.
5.Critical acidification loads, critical loads of hazardous elements.
6.Accumulation and deficiency of chemical elements, the impact on human health.
7.Enrichment factor – utilisation in evaluation of contamination of environment, enrichment in relationship mineral raw materials x end product.
8.Total solid particles (TSP) phase analysis, particle geochemistry, environmental and ecotoxicological risk.
9.Geochemistry of landscapes, urban and industrial areas.
10.Geochemistry of technogenic mineral phases
11.Geochemistry of energy by-products, wastes from metallurgical activities
12.Geochemistry of urban soils
13.Geochemistry of sediments
14.Modern instrumental methods and methods of phase analysis.

Povinná literatura

Alloway B.J. (2012): Heavy Metals in Soils: Trace Metals and Metalloids in Soils and their Bioavailability (Environmental Pollution). Springer Verlag. ISBN 9400744692 .
Baskaran M (2012): Handbook of Environmental Isotope Geochemistry. Springer. 1-951.
Gill R. (2015): Chemical Fundamentals of Geology and Environmental Geoscience. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken,USA. 1-297. ISBN: 9780470656655 
Killops S., Killops V. (2004): An Introduction to Organic Geochemistry. Blackwell Science Ltd., 1-408. 2. edition, ISBN-10: 0632065044
Marshall P., Fairbridge R.W: (1999): Encyclopedia of Geochemistry. Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1-798. ISBN: 0-412-75500-9
Nelson E. (2003): Principles of Environmental Geochemistry. Brooks Cole, ISBN-10: 01222290615 (528 p.)
Reemtsma T, Jekel M. (2006): Organic Pollutants in the Water Cycle. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, ISBN 3-527-31297-8, (347 p.)
White V.M. (2013): Geochemistry. WIley-Blackwell. Chichester, USA.1-660. ISBN: 9780470656686 

Doporučená literatura

Siegel, F. R.: Environmental geochemistry of potentially toxic metals. Berlin: Springer,2002, 1- 218.