Course Details

Chemistry of the environment

Academic Year 2025/26

BCA004 course is part of 1 study plan

​ BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year

Course Guarantor

prof. RNDr. Pavel Rovnaník, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Chemistry

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/289982

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.