Faculty of Science

Objectives

To enable students to understand the science of environmental pollution i.e. chemicals in the environment, transport pathways, ultimate fate, and toxic effects on the ecosystem as well as the role of chemistry in the current issues of environmental chemical change.

Contents

Nature and types of pollutants-elemental pollutants; heavy metals; organically bound metals and metalloids; inorganic species; organic pollutants; pesticides and radionuclides;Toxicological Chemistry of chemical substances: – toxicity of pollutants, assessment of potential exposure, estimation of health effects and risk assessment; Transport and behavior of pollutants – physical transport, reactivity, mass balance, distribution among phases; Pollutants in the atmosphere, hydrosphere and geosphere; Fate of Chemical species in water, soil, air and living environments; degradation pathways, persistence, bioaccumulation and toxicity; Analysis and Monitoring of pollutants; chemical analysis-water and wastewater, wastes and solids, air and gas, biological materials and xenobiotics and determination of materials.