Course Details

Chemistry of the environment

Academic Year 2024/25

BCA004 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

1. Inroduction, composition of nuclei, isotopes, radioactivity, atomic stucture. 2. Atomic weight, molecular mass, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds. 3. States of the matter,gases,liquids, solids, behaviour on the interface. 4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium. 5. Dispersions - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsions, coloids, real solutes, surfactants. 6. Silicon and its compounds, chemistry and degradation of glass. 7. Chemical composition and properties of lime, gypsum and hydraulic binders, degradation processes and protection against corrosion. 8. Electrochemical properties of metals, electrolysis, corrosion of metals. 9. Composition and general properties of carbon-based polymers and thier chemical stability. 10.Polymer materials used in civil engineering - structure, properties, utilization. 11. Characteristics of water composition, chemical equilibria in water, pH, calcium-carbonate equilibrium. 12. Water hardness and its elimination, ion exchangers. 13. Basic toxicological terms, essential polutants in the environment.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Information regardeing laboratory session. 2. Basic stoichiometric calculations. Nomenclature of inorganic compounds. 3. Acids and bases. 4. Neutralization and hydrolysis of salts. 5. Oxidation and reduction. 6. Lime, plaster of Paris. 7. Cements and other building materials. 8. Preparation and dilution of sulutes. Calculations from chemical equations. 9. Metals. 10. Composition of water. 11. Water hardness and its removal. 12. Ecotoxicological bioassays their evaluation. 13. Final test.