Environmental Processing of Organic Chemicals
CEE53:225 Spring Semester 2002
Mondays and Wednesdays 4:30-6:00 pm., 4505 SC
Prof.
Keri C. Hornbuckle
Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering
4138 SC
Office Phone:384-0789
E-mail:
keri-hornbuckle@uiowa.edu
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Environmental Organic Chemistry
by
Schwarzenbach, Gschwend, and Imboden. John Wiley&Sons, Inc. New
York, 1993, 681p.
Environmental Organic Chemistry;
Illustrative examples, problems, and case studies by Schwarzenbach,
Gschwend, and Imboden. John Wiley&Sons, Inc. New York, 1995.
Physical-Chemical Properties and
Environmental Fate Handbook, by Mackay, Shui, and Ma. CRCnetBASE
1999.
Multimedia Environmental Models :
The Fugacity Approach, by Donald Mackay, Lewis Publishers, 1991, 272p.
Our society's ever-expanding utilization of materials, energy, and space is accompanied by an increasing flux of anthropogenic organic chemicals to the environment. According to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD, Paris) there are over 70,000 (mostly organic) synthetic chemicals in daily use, including solvents, components of detergents, dyes and varnishes, additives in plastics and textiles, chemicals used for construction, herbicides, insecticides, fungicides. Control of these chemicals through engineered systems and predictions of their behavior once in the environment depend on a knowledge of the processes that govern their transport and transformations in the environment.
Students will use and construct mathematical
and computer models to predict the behavior of chemicals in engineered
and natural systems. Assessment of learning will be based on oral
presentations of case studies in current scientific and engineering literature;
homework/problem solving; and a final research report.