CHIMICA DELL'AMBIENTE E RETI DI MONITORAGGIO AMBIENTALE

Academic Year 2019/2020 - 2° Year - Curriculum Tossicologia dell'Ambiente e degli Alimenti
Teaching Staff: Pio Giuseppe BENINTENDE
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: CHIM/12 - Chemistry for the environment and for cultural heritage
Taught classes: 42 hours
Term / Semester:

Learning Objectives

Environmental sciences are of growing centrality in the world and chemistry once again plays a key role. The properties and reactions of substances in the environment. greatly affect the quality of life. Substances involved in environmental issues can be both natural and man-made. Knowledge of the chemical bases relevant to environmental issues is developed in this course and concerns both water and land and the atmosphere.
Students who finish teaching Environmental Chemistry will be able to:
1. Develop chemistry expertise useful for professional practice.
2. Develop knowledge of a range of chemical compounds present in the geosphere and hydrosphere.
3. Develop knowledge of the role of chemistry in the environmental sciences complex.
4. Develop knowledge of chemical methods in determining and detecting chemical compounds and their levels of presence in the environment.
5. Develop, through an assessment of environmental issues, the correct use of terminology and the first ability to read data.
6. Develop skills to be used for planning and developing, conducting, reviewing and reporting experiences related to environmental issues.
7. Develop knowledge for professional responsibility in terms of workplace safety and environmental issues in general.


Course Structure

Frontal lessons with the help of slides.

In order to take the Environmental Chemistry and Monitoring Networks exams, the student must have passed the General Chemistry which is preparatory, as per the CdL regulations in SFA.


Detailed Course Content

CHIMICA OF AMBIENT AND RETIENCE OF MONITORING
BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN APPLIED PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
CURRICULUM : OLOGYOLOGY OF THE AMBIENT AND ALIMENTS
A.A. 2019-20- Prof. Pius Joseph Benintende

Introduction to the course: the main sources of chemical-environmental pollution.
The difference between conventional agriculture, organic farming, biodynamic.
Atmosphere.
Ozone in the stratosphere.
Ozone structure mechanism (mechanism I) and destruction of ozone in the absence of oxygen (mechanism II).
Gas oxides in the atmosphere.

Chemical and photochemical reactions in the atmosphere.
Carbon monooxides.
Radicals.
Nitrogen oxides and sulfur compounds.
Acid and basic depositions in the atmosphere.
Effects of acid rain in the environment and on the ground.

Environmental estrogens.
Agropharmaceutical toxicity: insecticides, herbicides, organophosphores and organochlorates, carbamate, glyphosate, DDT, pyrethroids, acute and chronic toxicity.
Pollution: soil, water, bottled mineral water, intensive farming, electromagnetic waves, tobacco smoke, cadmium, lead and mercury.
Asbestos, water eutrophication, radionuclides (alpha, beta and gamma radiation).
Environmental Science: water and hydrosphere, air and atmosphere, soil, ecology, energy and photosynthesis in living systems, Constant of Planck.
The properties of water: water cycle, aquatic chemistry, water molecule, gas in water and water acidity.


Textbook Information

CHIMICA AMBIENTALE - COLIN BAIARD - MICHAEL CANN - TERZA EDIZIONE ITALIANA - ZANICHELLI EDITORE