Course Details
Chemistry of the environment
Academic Year 2023/24
BCA004 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-EVB Summer Semester 3rd year
The course is focused on the explenation of basic chemical terms and on the chemical issues of the building materials such as binders, glass, metals, wood, and plastics and thier degradation. Patr of the course is devoted to the chemistry of water with respect to the wastewater treatment and toxicological aspects of selected chemical substances which can be released to the internal environment of buildings.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Syllabus
1. Inroduction, composition of nuclei, isotopes, radioactivity, atomic stucture.
2. Atomic weight, molecular mass, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds.
3. States of the matter,gases,liquids, solids, behaviour on the interface.
4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium.
5. Dispersions - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsions, coloids, real solutes, surfactants.
6. Silicon and its compounds, chemistry and degradation of glass.
7. Chemical composition and properties of lime, gypsum and hydraulic binders, degradation processes and protection against corrosion.
8. Electrochemical properties of metals, electrolysis, corrosion of metals.
9. Composition and general properties of carbon-based polymers and thier chemical stability.
10.Polymer materials used in civil engineering - structure, properties, utilization.
11. Characteristics of water composition, chemical equilibria in water, pH, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
12. Water hardness and its elimination, ion exchangers.
13. Basic toxicological terms, essential polutants in the environment.
2. Atomic weight, molecular mass, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds.
3. States of the matter,gases,liquids, solids, behaviour on the interface.
4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium.
5. Dispersions - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsions, coloids, real solutes, surfactants.
6. Silicon and its compounds, chemistry and degradation of glass.
7. Chemical composition and properties of lime, gypsum and hydraulic binders, degradation processes and protection against corrosion.
8. Electrochemical properties of metals, electrolysis, corrosion of metals.
9. Composition and general properties of carbon-based polymers and thier chemical stability.
10.Polymer materials used in civil engineering - structure, properties, utilization.
11. Characteristics of water composition, chemical equilibria in water, pH, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
12. Water hardness and its elimination, ion exchangers.
13. Basic toxicological terms, essential polutants in the environment.
Prerequisites
basic structure of atoms, periodic table of the elements, basic chemical laws, basic inorganic and organic nomenclature, simple stoichiometric calculations, basics from organic chemistry.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Inroduction, composition of nuclei, isotopes, radioactivity, atomic stucture.
2. Atomic weight, molecular mass, molecules, chemical equations, stoichiometry, chemical bonds.
3. States of the matter,gases,liquids, solids, behaviour on the interface.
4. Chemical kinetics, reaction rate, catalysis, thermochemistry, chemical equilibrium.
5. Dispersions - gels, suspensions, aerosols, emulsions, coloids, real solutes, surfactants.
6. Silicon and its compounds, chemistry and degradation of glass.
7. Chemical composition and properties of lime, gypsum and hydraulic binders, degradation processes and protection against corrosion.
8. Electrochemical properties of metals, electrolysis, corrosion of metals.
9. Composition and general properties of carbon-based polymers and thier chemical stability.
10.Polymer materials used in civil engineering - structure, properties, utilization.
11. Characteristics of water composition, chemical equilibria in water, pH, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
12. Water hardness and its elimination, ion exchangers.
13. Basic toxicological terms, essential polutants in the environment.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Information regardeing laboratory session.
2. Basic stoichiometric calculations. Nomenclature of inorganic compounds.
3. Acids and bases.
4. Neutralization and hydrolysis of salts.
5. Oxidation and reduction.
6. Lime, plaster of Paris.
7. Cements and other building materials.
8. Preparation and dilution of sulutes. Calculations from chemical equations.
9. Metals.
10. Composition of water.
11. Water hardness and its removal.
12. Ecotoxicological bioassays their evaluation.
13. Final test.