Martin Scheringer: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2022 |
| Name | Herr Prof. Dr. Martin Scheringer (Professor Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) |
| Lehrgebiet | Chemical Engineering and Environmental Chemistry |
| Adresse | Organische Umweltchemie ETH Zürich, CHN F 35.2 Universitätstrasse 16 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 632 30 62 |
| Fax | +41 44 632 11 89 |
| scheringer@usys.ethz.ch | |
| URL | https://www.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/chab/chemical-n-bioengineering/set-group/en.html |
| Departement | Umweltsystemwissenschaften |
| Beziehung | Privatdozent |
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| 701-0998-00L | Environmental and Human Health Risk Assessment of Chemicals | 3 KP | 2G | M. Scheringer, B. Escher | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Anwendungen der Methoden zur Produktrisikobewertung für Mensch und Umwelt gemäss EU-Leitfäden; Expositions- und Effektanalyse am Beispiel verschiedener Chemikalien. Abschätzung fehlender Stoffeigenschaften (QSAR-Methoden); Diskussion der Bewertungsmethoden; Vorstellung alternativer Methoden zur Umweltrisikobewertung von Chemikalien | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Kenntnis der Methoden der Risikobewertung (Umwelt und menschliche Gesundheit) für chemische Produkte und ihrer Möglichkeiten und Grenzen; Diskussion neuer Ansätze zur Risikobewertung: 1. Vermittlung des politischen und rechtlichen Zusammenhangs, in dem die Bewertung chemischer Produkte stattfindet, mit besonderem Fokus auf REACH (Chemikaliengesetzgebung der EU) 2. Vermittlung der Bewertungsverfahren und der benötigten Methoden zur Abschätzung von Emission, Umweltexposition und Wirkung. Umgang mit Datenlücken, Bewertung der Resultate. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Regulatory methods for environmental risk assessment of chemicals (industrial chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals), European regulation REACH, Swiss regulations, international approaches - Human vs. environmental risk assessment - Classification and labelling of chemicals - PBT assessment (persistence, bioaccumulation, toxicity) - Exposure analysis: emission patterns, multimedia fate and transport models for quantifying environmental exposure, Long range transport and persistence, predicted and measured exposure concentration for the environment and humans - Effect analysis: estimation of hazard potential for ecotoxicity and human health, extrapolation methods, classification of chemicals according to modes of toxic action, predictive models (QSAR) - Risk assessment methods (deterministic vs. probabilistic), risk assessment vs. hazard assessment, risk management - uncertainty and sensitivity analyses, precautionary principle - Environmental Quality Assessment (water, sediment, biota), Water Framework Directive) - New methods in environmental risk assessment: mixtures, temporally and spatially explicit risk assessment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Es werden Kopien der Folien und weiteres Material verteilt. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | - Van Leeuwen, C.J., Vermeire, T. (Eds.) Risk Assessment of Chemicals: An Introduction. Springer, 2007 (als e-book in der ETH-Bibliothek verfügbar). - Scheringer, M., Persistence and Spatial Range of Environmental Chemicals. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 2002. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Block course: Lecture and accompanying exercise where students conduct a comprehensive risk assessment for one selected chemical each according to the European regulation for industrial chemicals. The risk assessment will be presented in class and has to be compiled in a written technical report (Chemical dossier) that will be graded. The overall work load is 90 hours with 30 hours contact time (block course) and 60 hours self-study. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 701-1240-00L | Modelling Environmental Pollutants  Number of participants limited to 50. | 3 KP | 2G | M. Scheringer, C. Bogdal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 701-1350-00L | Case Studies in Environment and Health | 4 KP | 2V | K. McNeill, T. Julian, M. Scheringer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course will focus on a few individual chemicals and pathogens from different standpoints: their basic chemistry or biology, their environmental behavior, (eco)toxicology, and human health impacts. The course will draw out the common points in each chemical or pathogen's history. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | This course aims to illustrate how the individual properties of chemicals and pathogens along with societal pressures lead to environmental and human health crises. The ultimate goal of the course is to identify common aspects that will improve prediction of environmental crises before they occur. Students are expected to participate actively in the course, which includes the critical reading of the pertinent literature and class presentations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Each class will feature the case study of a different chemical or pathogen that have had a profound effect on human health and the environment. The instructors will present eight to ten of these and the students will present a poster on their own pollutant or pathogen in groups of two. Students will be expected to contribute to the in class discussions and, on their selected topics, to lead the discussion. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Handouts will be provided as needed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | Handouts will be provided as needed. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||