Dr. D. Lennox, Biometrics Department, School of Agriculture and Food Science, Newforge Lane. Any two modules chosen from the three modules in Environmental Chemistry or Engineering listed below. This course deals with the origins, compositions and dynamic relationships involving the oceans and fresh waters, including balance of organic and inorganic components, ecotoxicology, pollution, eutrophication, oxygen balance, acid rain effects, influences of industry and agriculture, co-ordination chemistry in water, complexing agents in natural waters and their stabilities, water treatment. This course deals with the chemical processes involved in the earth's atmosphere, including basic theory of climatology, composition and structure of the atmosphere, atmospheric photochemistry and photochemical smog, ozone formation and depletion, CFC's and their replacements, greenhouse gases, atmospheric pollution, physiological effects of airborne organics, radon emission. This course will consider chemical relationships between the components of the superficial layer of the earth, including rock types, weathering, structures and properties of clays, ion exchange and catalytic properties, effects of acid rain and of the agricultural conditioning of land.
Water is an essential part of the geologic cycle.
To understand the impact of the Built Environment on the natural environment, one must understand how rocks weather and how the natural chemistry of water differs from pollution sources. This course provides an introduction to fundamental processes in industrial waste treatment. The course covers relevant aspects of the physiology, growth, metabolic diversity and genetics of micro-organisms. It is presented as a series of topics, in the first part concentrating on microbial biodegradation processes and in the second part on industrial applications. Each student works through a practical problem and produces a report in two stages.