701-1240-00L Modelling Environmental Pollutants
| Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2021 |
| Dozierende | M. Scheringer, C. Bogdal |
| Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
| Lehrsprache | Englisch |
Lehrveranstaltungen
| Nummer | Titel | Umfang | Dozierende | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 701-1240-00 G | Modelling Environmental Pollutants The course will initially start online. Further details have been sent by e-mail. The room reservation remains in place if face-to-face teaching is possible after the Easter break. | 2 Std. |
| M. Scheringer, C. Bogdal |
Katalogdaten
| Kurzbeschreibung | Modeling the emissions, transport, partitioning and transformation/degradation of chemical contaminants in air, water and soil. |
| Lernziel | This course is intended for students who are interested in the environmental fate and transport of volatile and semi-volatile organic chemicals and exposure to pollutants in environmental media including air, water, soil and biota. The course focuses on the theory and application of mass-balance models of environmental pollutants. These models are quantitative tools for describing, understanding, and predicting the way pollutants interact with the environment. Important topics include thermodynamic and kinetic descriptions of chemical behavior in environmental systems; mechanisms of chemical degradation in air and other media; novel approaches to modeling chemical fate in a variety of environments, including lakes and rivers, generic regions, and at the global scale, and application of mass balance modeling principles to describe bioaccumulation of pollutants by fish and mammals. |
| Inhalt | Application of mass balance principles to chemicals in a system of coupled environmental media. Measurement and estimation of physico-chemical properties that determine the environmental behavior of chemicals. Thermodynamic and kinetic controls on the behavior of pollutants. Modeling environmental persistence, bioaccumulation and long-range transport potential of chemicals, including a review of available empirical data on various degradation processes. Current issues in multimedia contaminant fate modeling and a case study of the student's choice. |
| Skript | Material to support the lectures will be distributed during the course. |
| Literatur | There is no required text. The following texts are useful for background reading and additional information. D. Mackay. Multimedia Environmental Models: The Fugacity Approach, 2nd Ed. 2001. CRC Press. R. P. Schwarzenbach, P. M. Gschwend, D. M. Imboden. Environmental Organic Chemistry. 2nd Ed. 2003, John Wiley & Sons. M. Scheringer. Persistence and spatial range of environmental chemicals: New ethical and scientific concepts for risk assessment. 2002. Wiley-VCH. |
Leistungskontrolle
| Information zur Leistungskontrolle (gültig bis die Lerneinheit neu gelesen wird) | |
Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs | |
| ECTS Kreditpunkte | 3 KP |
| Prüfende | M. Scheringer, C. Bogdal |
| Form | Sessionsprüfung |
| Prüfungssprache | Englisch |
| Repetition | Die Leistungskontrolle wird in jeder Session angeboten. Die Repetition ist ohne erneute Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich. |
| Prüfungsmodus | schriftlich 120 Minuten |
| Hilfsmittel schriftlich | Calculators (non-programmable and non-communicating). |
| Diese Angaben können noch zu Semesterbeginn aktualisiert werden; verbindlich sind die Angaben auf dem Prüfungsplan. | |
Lernmaterialien
| Keine öffentlichen Lernmaterialien verfügbar. | |
| Es werden nur die öffentlichen Lernmaterialien aufgeführt. |
Gruppen
| Keine Informationen zu Gruppen vorhanden. |
Einschränkungen
| Plätze | Maximal 50 |
| Vorrang | Die Belegung der Lerneinheit ist bis 26.02.2021 nur durch die primäre Zielgruppe möglich |
| Primäre Zielgruppe | Umweltingenieurwissenschaften MSc (127000)
Atmospheric and Climate Science MSc (661000) Umweltnaturwissenschaften MSc (736000) Doktorat Umweltnaturwissenschaften (739002) |
| Warteliste | Bis 05.03.2021 |
| Belegungsende | Belegung nur bis 05.03.2021 möglich |
