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. Quantitative Chemical Analysis 9th Edition Daniel C. Harris.
Learning Objectives
The course supplies to the student thorough knowledg of eseveral instrumental analytical techniques and their specific applications in the environmental studies.
Prerequisites
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.