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Contaminants and their behavior in the environment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 546-0852/03
Abbreviation KŽP
Course title Contaminants and their behavior in the environment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Mgr. Eva Pertile, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

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. Bottom sediments, origin, water-sediment equilibrium, sorption on the sediment surface.
13. Landfills as possible sources of contamination of environmental components.

Literature

HITES, R. A. Elements of environmental chemistry. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Intersicence, 2007. xiii, 204. ISBN 9780471998150 .
IBÁŃEZ, Jorge Guillermo. Environmental chemistry: fundamentals. New York, NY: Springer, 2007. xviii, 334. ISBN 9780387260617 .
MANAHAN, Stanley E. Environmental chemistry. 9th ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2010. ISBN 1420059203 .
BLEAM, W. F. Soil and environmental chemistry. Second edition. Boston: Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, 2017. ISBN 978-0-12-804178-9 .

Advised literature

PERTILE, Eva, Dalibor SUROVKA a Aleš BOŽOŇ. The Study of Occurrences of Selected PAHs Adsorbed on PM10 Particles in Coal Mine Waste Dumps Heřmanice and Hrabůvka (Czech Republic). In: 16th International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference: SGEM 2016: energy and clean technologies: conference proceedings: 2-5 November, 2016, Extended Scientific Sessions Vienna, Austria, HOFBURG Congress Centre. Volume III. Sofia: STEF92 Technology Ltd., 2016. s. 161-168. ISBN 978-619-7105-82-7 .
MOLINOVÁ, Barbora, Eva PERTILE a Martina NOVÁČKOVÁ. Water and Sediment Quality Assessment in the Wetland Pateria de Fermentelos (Portugal). Carpathian Journal of Earth and Environmental Sciences. BAIA MARE: North University of BAIA MARE, 2013, 8(2, 2013), s. 133-142. ISSN 1842-4090 .
PERTILE, Eva, Dalibor SUROVKA, Eliška SARCAKOVA a Aleš BOŽON. Monitoring of Pollutants in an Active Mining Dump Ema, Czech Republic. Inžynieria Mineralna. Kraków: Polskie towarzystwo przeróbki kopalin, 2017, 39(1), s. 45-50. ISSN 1640-4920 .
LICHTFOUSE, E., J. SCHWARZBAUER a D. ROBERT. Pollutant diseases, remediation, and recycling. Cham: Springer, 2013. Environmental chemistry for a sustainable world, v. 4.