Course Overview
Environmental contaminants can vary from agricultural products which can include organo-chloride pesticides, or industrial by-products such as petroleum hydrocarbons and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to a variety of trace metals. It is the purpose of this course to show how to develop methods for the separation, identification and quantification of agricultural and environmental compounds in air, water, soil and sediment samples.
Prerequisite(s)
- 2 yr Chemical Sciences Diploma or equivalent.
Credits
2.0
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Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:
- Describe the components, procedures and organization of a modern environmental analytical laboratory.
- Describe the design and layout of an instrumentation room and a volatile analysis room.
- Explain sampling procedures with respect to: containers, preservatives, holding times, transport and chain of custody.
- Discuss the importance of laboratory QA/QC with respect to GLP and computer databases.
- Explain the fundamentals of chromatography and separation science.
- Describe the different types of chromatography (TLC, GC, LC).
- Describe the main components of a modern gas chromatograph.
- Explain column types and materials.
- Describe the different types of GC detectors (FID, ECD, TCD).
- Explain the fundamentals of environmental matrices extraction.
- Describe liquid/liquid and liquid/solid extraction techniques.
- Describe extraction techniques for solid samples.
- Describe advanced extraction techniques supercritical fluid.
- Explain the process for the determination of extractable petroleum hydrocarbons in solids by GC/FSD.
- Define extractable petroleum hydrocarbons.
- Describe BCWLAP and CCME methods.
- Perform the extraction and analysis of extractable petroleum hydrocarbons from a matrix sample.
- Describe the main components of an ion chromatography system.
- Explain the ion chromatography separation process (mobile vs stationary phase).
- Specify common applications of ion chromatography.
- Describe the different types of detectors used in ion chromatography.
- Explain the fundamentals of liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry (LC-MS).
- Describe the components of an LC-MS system.
- Discuss mass spectrometry with respect to ion sources and quadruple detectors.
- Prepare a protein sample for LC-MS analysis.
- Perform an LC-MS analysis of a protein sample.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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