Data analysis. Electrochemical techniques: potentiometry, voltammetry. Spectrophotometry in UV-vis. Atomic Absorbance: fundamentals and instrumentation.
Fundamentals of separation techniques.
Laboratory exercises for environmental analysis.
Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry; Skoog, West, Holler, Saunders Publishing. Analytical Chemistry; Gary Christian, Piccin.
Learning Objectives
The course supplies to the student thorough knowledg of eseveral instrumental analytical techniques and their specific applications in the environmental studies.
Prerequisites
Courses recommended:
Analytical chemistry I, Laboratory of analytical Chemistry I.
Teaching Methods
Total number of hours for lectures: 32.
Total number of hours for Laboratory-field practice: 24.
Type of Assessment
Laboratory report of the exercises carried out.
Oral examination.
Course program
Analytical quality criteria and performance tests. Calibration curve. Electrochemical techniques: potentiometry, voltammetry.
Spectrophotometry theory.
Instruments for optical spectroscopy. Molecular absorption spectroscopy. Atomic spectroscopy.
Introduction to analytical separations.
Theory and instrumentation of Gas-Chromatography. Columns and stationary phases. Liquid chromatography. HPLC: theory and instrumentation. Column and stationary phases, isocratic and gradient elution, detectors, applications. Ionic chromatography: principles and instrumentation. Exclusion dimensional chromatography: theory and applications.
Laboratory exercises for measurements of environmental interest.