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Instrumental Analysis

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Course Unit Code651-2037/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated3 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *First Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredSummer Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
MAT27doc. Ing. Vlastimil Matějka, Ph.D.
Summary
The course Instrumental Analysis follows the course Methods of Classical Analysis. This course is taught in the form of lectures and practical exercises and is followed by other courses Chemical Analysis and Exercises in Materials Research Methods, which are designed as practical exercises, which will practice in detail most of the techniques discussed in the course Instrumental Analysis. The course Instrumental Analysis is focused on methods of elemental analysis for the determination of C, N, H, S and O content, as well as spectral, mass spectrometry, electrochemical and separation methods. The last block of lectures will discuss the analysis of the chemical composition of gaseous samples and the possibility of determining the mass and numerical concentration of solids in the air. As part of practical exercises, selected instrumental methods of chemical analysis will be practiced.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic methods of instrumental chemical analysis.
Course Contents
1. Introduction, division of instrumental methods of analytical chemistry, their choice for a given type of samples.
2.-3. Elemental analysis. Atomic spectrometry. (OES, XRFS, AAS, principles of individual methods, instrumentation, processing and interpretation of obtained data, use of techniques in the field of chemical analysis of materials). Elemental analysis C, N, H, S, O (determination principle, analysis of solid and liquid samples).
4.-5. Molecular spectrometry. (UV-VIS and IR spectrometry, Raman spectrometry, principles of methods, instrumentation, processing and interpretation of obtained data, use of techniques in the field of chemical analysis of materials).
6. Mass spectrometry (principle of the method, effective mass, methods of ionization of molecules, ion fragmentation, instrumentation, evaluation of mass spectra).
7–8. Electrochemical analysis of liquid samples. Electrochemical potential, electrodes, electrogravimetry, measurement of electrical conductivity of liquid samples. Polarography, potentiometry, voltammetry, amperometry.)
9. Electromigration methods. (Overview of electromigration methods, electrophoresis, isotachophoresis, principles of methods, instrumentation, processing and interpretation of obtained data, use of techniques in the field of environmental analysis).
10. - 11. Liquid, ion and gas chromatography. (principle of chromatographic methods, instrumentation, processing and interpretation of obtained data, use of techniques in the field of chemical analysis of materials, tandem techniques)
12. Methods for determining the chemical composition of gases. Methods for determining the mass and number of solid particles in the air.

Exercises:

1. Determination of chemical composition of steel by GDOES method.
2. Potentiometric determination of chromium and vanadium in steel.
3. Excursion to the workplace of optical emission spectroscopy with inductively coupled plasma.
4. Potentiometric determination of pH, determination of electrical conductivity of electrolytes.
5. Determination of chlorides by ion selective electrode and ion chromatography.
6. Isotachophoric determination of selected ions.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
VO-DINH, Tuan a G. GAUGLITZ. Handbook of spectroscopy. [Cambridge]: Wiley-VCH, c2003. ISBN 3-527-29782-0.
GROSS, Jürgen H. Mass Spectrometry: A Textbook. 3rd ed. 2017. Imprint: Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-54397-0.
CHRISTIAN, Gary D. Analytical chemistry. 5th ed. New York: Wiley, c1994. ISBN 0-471-30582-0.
SKOOG, Douglas A., Donald M. WEST, F. James HOLLER a Stanley R. CROUCH. Analytická chemie. Přeložil Karel NESMĚRÁK, přeložil Václav ČERVENÝ, přeložil Tomáš KŘÍŽEK, přeložil Eliška NOVÁKOVÁ. Praha: Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze, 2019. ISBN 9788075920430.
VO-DINH, Tuan a G. GAUGLITZ. Handbook of spectroscopy. [Cambridge]: Wiley-VCH, c2003. ISBN 3-527-29782-0.
GROSS, Jürgen H. Mass Spectrometry: A Textbook. 3rd ed. 2017. Imprint: Springer, 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-54397-0.
CHRISTIAN, Gary D. Analytical chemistry. 5th ed. New York: Wiley, c1994. ISBN 0-471-30582-0.


Recommended Reading:
ZHANG, Chunlong. Fundamentals of environmental sampling and analysis. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2007. ISBN 04-717-1097-0.
PRAUS, Petr a Jiřina VONTOROVÁ. Analytická chemie II. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2015. ISBN 978-80-248-3734-5.
ZHANG, Chunlong. Fundamentals of environmental sampling and analysis. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley-Interscience, c2007. ISBN 04-717-1097-0.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials, Experimental work in labs
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit30 16
        ExaminationExamination70 35