Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Asoka Marasinghe
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Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Asoka Marasinghe
Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Asoka Marasinghe
This
note covers the following topics: The Composition of Our Air, Air Pollutants,
Concentration Terms , Protecting the Ozone Layer, The Chapman Cycle, Antarctic
Seasonal Ozone Depletion, Energy from Combustion, First Law of Thermodynamics,
Heat of Combustion, Catalytic Reforming, Fuel Alternatives , Water for Life,
Neutralizing the Threat of Acid Rain.
This note covers the
following topics: The Earth’s Atmosphere, Stratospheric Chemistry, Ozone,
Tropospheric Chemistry: Smog and Precipitation, Atmospheric Aerosols, Chemistry of
Urban and Indoor Atmospheres, The Chemistry of Global Climate.
This note explains the following topics: Thermodynamics,
Chemical Equilibrium, Photochemistry, Photolysis rate, frequency, Chemical
lifetime , Heterogenous Reactions, Chemistry of the upper atmosphere, Chemistry
of the stratosphere, Ozone Hole, Tropospheric chemistry, Tropospheric
chemistry.
This note addresses
the challenges of defining a relationship between exposure to environmental
chemicals and human disease. Topics covered include epidemiological approaches
to understanding disease causation, biostatistical methods, evaluation of human
exposure to chemicals, and their internal distribution, metabolism, reactions
with cellular components, and biological effects, and qualitative and
quantitative health risk assessment methods used in the U.S. as bases for
regulatory decision-making.
Author(s): Prof.
James Sherley, Dr. Laura Green and Prof. Steven Tannenbaum
Environmental
chemistry is a range of concepts from chemistry and various environmental
sciences. Topics covered includes: Environmental Toxicology, Environmental
Chemicals, Environmental Risk Assessment, Organics Chemistry for Environmental
Engineering, Dissolved Oxygen and Its Importance in Environment, COD and Its
Effects on Environment, Total Suspended Solids, pH and Water Chemistry.