Waste Analysis

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Department of Nuclear Chemistry

Synopsis:

Course of selected methods applied in environmental analyses. Course is focussed to a solid, slurry or gaseous matrixes, including introduction to sampling techniques and preconcentration techniques.

Requirements:

Students should have a good knowledge of analytical chemistry at the undergraduate level.

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Characterization of solid waste categories, production and composition

2.Analysis reliability, error sources, verification types, range of analyses

3.Manipulation and processing of solid waste samples

4.Analysis of solid municipal waste

5.Chemical waste evaluation, sampling methods and sample treatment specific for hazardous wastes

6.Quick analytical methods - screening

7.Soils - quality parameter, norms and legislation

8.Field analysis

9.Headspace analysis

10.Colorimetric tubes - chemisorptions

11.Analysis in stationary laboratories

12.Volatile Organic Compounds - alifatic, aromatic, halogenated and other volatiles

13.Problematic organic substances (PCBs, pesticides, herbicides)

14.Heavy metals

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Study Objective:

In this course students will gain a good knowledge of the methods of analysis of wastes including their limits. Necessary attention is also paid to the waste sampling methods. Students will also gain competence for a correct choice of the analytical method and evaluation of the results of analysis.

Study materials:

Key literature:

Carter, Martin R.(Ed.): Soil sampling and method of analysis, Lewis Publishers 1993

Recommended literature:

USEpa Soil Sampling and Analysis for Volatile Organic Compounds, USEpa/540/4-91/001, 1991

United States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service: Soil Taxonomy, A Basic system of Soil Classification for Making and Interpreting Soil Surveys, Second Edition, Washington, 1999

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Jaderná chemie (elective course)