Course: Mitigation of pollution and toxicity in the environment

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Course title Mitigation of pollution and toxicity in the environment
Course code KECHT/1MIT1
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 10
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Krystyník Pavel, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Concepts of general, industrial, and environmental toxicology. 2. Chemical contaminants and their toxicity, heavy metals, inorganic contaminants. 3. Persistent organic pollutants and other hazardous environmental substances (bisphenols, polymer monomers, phthalates), PAHs, PCBs, dioxins, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, etc. 4. Substances endangering the ozone layer and other significant organic contaminants (nitriles, amines, nitro compounds, epoxides). 5. Classification system for substances hazardous to health and the environment, and risk assessment systems. 6. Introduction to the issue. Relationship between the chemical industry and the environment. 7. Traditional methods of industrial wastewater treatment. 8. Advanced oxidation processes for industrial wastewater treatment. 9. Special electrochemical processes for industrial wastewater treatment. Literature: 1. J. Chang et al., Toxicological effects, environmental behaviors and remediation technologies of herbicide atrazine in soil and sediment: A comprehensive review. Chemosphere 307 (2022) 136006. 2. K. H. H. Aziz, R. Kareem, Recent advances in water remediation from toxic heavy metals using biochar as a green and efficient adsorbent: A review. Case Stud. Chem. Environ. Eng. 8 (2023) 100495. 3. E. Hodgson, A Textbook of Modern Toxicology, 4th Ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc, (2010). 4. A. Saravanan et al., Effective water/wastewater treatment methodologies for toxic pollutants removal: Processes and applications towards sustainable development. Chemosphere 280 (2021), 130595. 5. J. M. Poyatos et al., Advanced oxidation processes for wastewater treatment: State of the art. Water Air Soil Pollut. 205 (2010) 187. 6. M. P. Shah, Removal of Emerging Contaminants Through Microbial Processes, Springer, (2020). 7. R. G. Simon et al., Current to clean water - Electrochemical solutions for groundwater, water, and wastewater treatment. Chemie Ingenieur Technik 90 (2018) 1832.

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