Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Prof. Prashant V. Kamat
Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Prof. Prashant V. Kamat
Environmental Chemistry Lecture Notes by Prof. Prashant V. Kamat
This
note covers the following topics: Chemistry and the Environment, Stratosphere,
Ozone Hole, Air Pollution -Smog, acid rain and Particles, Free Radical Chemistry
in Troposphere, Green House Gases, Global Warming/Carbon Footprint, Climate
Change, Energy-Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Energy, Renewable Energy, Pesticides, Toxic
Heavy Metals and Waste, Decontamination of water,Emerging Environmental Issues,
Pollution and Water Purification.
This note covers the following topics:
Atmospheric composition and principles of contaminant behavior, Contaminants and
their natural pathways of degradation and their abatement, Air Pollution Control
Technique, Water Pollution, Major Sources of Water Pollution, Water Pollution
Treatment, Soil Pollution.
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 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
The
overall goal of this book is to gain an understanding of the fundamental
chemical processes that are central to a range of important environmental
problems and to utilize this knowledge in making critical evaluations of these
problems.