Course: Laboratory of Environmental Analysis

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Course title Laboratory of Environmental Analysis
Course code TUIOZP/TE8LE
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction English
Status of course unspecified
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Šenkárová Lenka, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Vinter Štěpán, Ing. Ph.D.
  • Filip Jaroslav, Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Work safety. Principles of aseptic work, instruments in instrumental laboratory. 2. Determination of standard heavy metals in liquid samples by atomic absorption spectrometry. 3. Determination using ion selective electrodes. 4. Determination of mercury in fish samples using the mercury analyzer AMA 254. 5. Determination of minerals by X-ray diffraction spectrometer. 6. Determination of orthophosphates in samples of drinking, surface and mineral water. 7. Determination of drugs by HPLC. 8. Identification of minerals by optical and electron microscopy. 9. Determination of turbidity in drinking, surface and mineral water samples. 10. Voltammetric determination of metals in waste galvanic baths. 11. Determination of NEL in aqueous medium on gas chromatograph with a FID detection. 12. Potentiometric and conductometric determination of glucose oxidase activity in preparations of biological materials. 13. Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in roasted coffee samples by HPLC with fluorescence detection. 14. Determination of glyphosphate and AMPA in waters by HPLC method with fluororescence detection.

Learning activities and teaching methods
  • Preparation for course credit - 120 hours per semester
learning outcomes
Skills
perform element analysis in samples using spectroscopic methods, e.g. AAS, AMA
perform element analysis in samples using spectroscopic methods, e.g. AAS, AMA
perform analysis in samples using separation methods, e.g. GC, HPLC
perform analysis in samples using separation methods, e.g. GC, HPLC
perform analysis in samples using electroanalytical methods, e.g. ISE, Voltammetry
perform analysis in samples using electroanalytical methods, e.g. ISE, Voltammetry
perform molecular analysis in samples using spectroscopic methods, e.g. IR
perform molecular analysis in samples using spectroscopic methods, e.g. IR
teaching methods
Knowledge
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Monologic (Exposition, lecture, briefing)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Dialogic (Discussion, conversation, brainstorming)
Skills
Simple experiments
Simple experiments
Practice exercises
Practice exercises
assessment methods
Knowledge
Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products)
Analysis of works made by the student (Technical products)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Grade (Using a grade system)
Recommended literature
  • Laboratorní návody..
  • Holzbecher, Z., Churáček, J. a kol. Analytická chemie. Praha : SNTL, 1987.
  • Houser, J., Novotný, L. Laboratorní cvičení ze speciálních metod instrumentální analýzy II. Brno : UTB, 2002. ISBN 80-214-1654-8.
  • RUBINSON, K.A. Contemporary Instrumental Analysis.. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 137907265.
  • Skoog, D.A. et al. Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry. Sounders College Publ., 1996, 423 pp. Philadelphia, 1996.
  • WILLARD, H.H. Instrumental Methods of Analysis. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing, 1988. ISBN 0534081428.
  • ZÁRUBA, K. Analytická chemie. Díl 2.. Praha: VŠCHT, 2016. ISBN 978-80-7080-951-8.


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