ENST 403: Intro to Environmental Chemistry

Call number 36019, Section 001
Tues, Thurs 11:00 am -12:15 pm
Room 201 Dey Hall


Instructor: Richard Kamens kamens@unc.edu , 966-5452

Link: http://www.unc.edu/courses/2009spring/enst/403/001/

Textbook: Environmental Chemistry by Colin Baird and Michael Cann, ISBN > 0-7167-4877-0, publishers W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 652 pages, 2005.

Last Update: April 23, 3:33pm: review slides posted

Schedule

Date

Topic

Lecture Materials

01/13

Intro

Notes liver fertility short homeworks  homeworks

01/15

Energy

Notes  Baird new book pages: 261-306; old book:  253 – 298

01/20

Some chemistry Basics

Notes

01/22

The Atmospheric Compartment

Notes 

01/27

Global Warming

Notes  Baird new book: 205-260; old book 167 – 263 hw answer    more HW help

01/29

More global warming

 Professor Jason West: ESE-UNC

02/03

Kinetics

Notes New book 231-233

02/05

Stratospheric O3 depletion

Notes  Baird new book: 27-87; old book: 3- 65

02/10

Finish Stratospheric O3;  Begin Aerosols

Notes   HW Lect. 8 ans

02/12

Finish Aerosols;  Begin O3 –Smog Chemistry

Notes Baird book: 97-117, 175-201; old book: 139 – 165

02/17

More smog chemistry

 

02/19

A simple photochemical model-basic concepts

 

02/24

A more complex O3 model

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02/26

Analysis of Environmental pollutants: Chromatography

 

03/03

GC data analysis in class/ Review for exam

 

 

 

 

03/05

Exam

 

03/17

Go over exam; review chromatography

General Chromatography   Theory  Packed col. GC data  FID response vs.  ppmC from Erba   Shimadzu Cryo data   GC Varian Cryo GC unknown data  

03/19

Review simple thermodynamics

Class notes  

03/24

Vapor pressure

notes

03/26

Henry’s Law and wash out

notes

03/31

Octanol-H2O and bio accumulation

Notes

04/02

examples of Henry’s law,  finish Octanol water with extraction and bio accumulation examples

 

04/07

Chemistry of Natural Waters

Notes  Professor Philip Singer ESE, UNC,  ,  Beard new book 557-599, old book

04/09

Purification of water

  Professor Philip Singer ESE, UNC Baird New book: 601 – 654, Old book : 463-515

04/14

Pesticides

 notes Baird new book: 413-467: old book: 307-357

04/16

pesticides continued

 some calculations

04/21

Heavy metals Wastes, soils

 Baird New Book: 469-504, 508-515;  P 713 767; Old book: 359-421Notes Baird old book:  516-561

 

 

 lect-22 water purification/Problem 13.5.doc

04/23

Review

  Review notes