SUBJECT
Title
Environmental technologies, soil and water chemistry
Type of instruction
lecture
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 2
Typically offered in
Spring semester
Course description
Formation and chemical characterization of soils. Analytical methods for determination of industrial contaminants of soils, sediments and surface waters. Monitoring methods. Remediation of polluted soils, phytoremediation. Wastewater treatment technologies. Protection of drinking water reservoirs. Biological and chemical methods of water quality measurements. European Directives of Water Quality.
Readings
- S. E. Manahan: Environmental Chemistry, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1994
- D. Skoog, D. West, J. Holler: Fundamental of Analytical Chemistry, Saunders College Publishing, 1992.
- T. Reemtsma, M. Jekel (editors) Organic Pollutants in the Water Cycle, Wiley, 2006.