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Organic Environmental Analysis
Year I
This course fundamentally covers the following units:
A. Man-made
Materials in the Environment: (i) Man-made environmental pollution
including concepts of chemical toxicity, bio magnification and persistence,
(ii) Organic pollutants (e.g:
Organophosphorus
and carbamate insecticides, organochlorine insecticides, polychlorinated
biphenyls, dioxins, herbicides, detergents …)
B. Fate
of Organic Molecules in the Environment: (i) Description of the degradation of
organic molecules in the environment, (ii) Chemical stability of organic
molecules and the chemistry of their breakdown.
C.
Modern analytical methods: (i) Sampling process, (ii) Short
description of modern trace analysis methods (GC-MS/MS/HPLC), employed to
investigate the persistence and breakdown of organic pollutants in the
environment.
D.
Laboratory activities and Field visit: (i) Laboratory analysis of organic
pollutants, (ii) Places where organic pollutants can be found (Field
visits
to different industries and laboratories)