SUBJECT

Title

Environmental technologies, soil and water chemistry

Type of instruction

lecture

Level

master

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.