Environmental Quality Monitoring and Analysis

 Week 1: Introduction; Definition of Environment; Link between source/environment/receptor; Exposure; Health effects; Toxicology; Defining the need for fate and transport.

Week 2: Chemicals of concern; relevant properties for environmental fate and transport; Definition of Equilibrium – partition constants, solubility, vapor pressure, henry’s constant, Koc, Kow etc. Equilibrium partitioning of chemicals between different phases of the environment.
Week 3: Parameters for environmental water/ air / soil / sediment – screening parameters, priority air pollutants – definitions of PM
Week 4: Monitoring of environmental parameters – screening parameters – BOD, COD, TOC, TDS; Environmental sampling – definition and synthesis of a monitoring/sampling/analysis method. Quality Assurance and quality control (QA/QC).
Week 5: Methods for sampling/processing/analysis of organic and inorganic constituents in air/water/soil/sediment.
Week 6: Introduction to environmental transport – BOX Models and the application to multimedia transport of pollutants
Week 7: Atmospheric Dispersion – Gaussian Dispersion model
Week 8: Fundamentals of mass transport – definition of intraphase and inter-phase chemical flux; interphase mass transport, diffusion coefficient and convenction mass transfer coefficients.
Week 9: Chemical Exchange between air-water
Week 10: Chemical Exchange between sediment-water
Week 11: Cemical exchange between soil-air
Week 12: Overall transport model and scenarios