Course title
環境汚染化学   [Chemistry of Organic Pollutants]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 2  Semester 3rd 
Course type 3rd  Course code 01en2042
Instructor(s)
高田 秀重, 水川 薫子   [TAKADA Hideshige, MIZUKAWA Kaoruko]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office afjgxte/L1151  Email address

Course description
Regarding typical organic contaminants, their chemical structures, chemical properties, distributions, environmental behaviors, and adverse biological effects are lectured. General rules of behaviors of organic contaminants which are controlled by source characteristics and properties (i.e., volatility, hydrophobicity, degradability) of the contaminants are explained by generalized way and specified way through various specific cases of the individual classes of contaminants. Monitoring and study approaches and the results are provided.
Expected Learning
To understand chemical structures, chemical properties, distributions, environmental behaviors, and adverse biological effects of typical organic contaminants.
To understand general rules where behaviors of organic contaminants are controlled by source characteristics and properties (i.e., volatility, hydrophobicity, degradability).
To understand monitoring and study approaches of pollutants.

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Course schedule
1-1 General rules and factors controlling the behavior organic micropollutants.
1-2. Definition of pollutants and scope of Lecture "Chemistry of Organic micro pollutants".
1-3. Sources of pollutants
2. Properties and behavior (i.e., volatility, hydrophobicity, degradability).

3. Organochlorine compounds (Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls : PCBs):structures and sources
4. Organochlorine compounds (Organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls : PCBs):properties and behaviors
5. Dioxins
6. Brominated flame retardants
7. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
8. Petroleum pollution
9. Synthetic detergents
10. Perfluorinated surfactants
11. Endocrine disrupting chemicals
12. Plastic pollution
13. Marine plastics and microplastics pollution
14. Pharmaceuticals and antibiotics
15. Monitoring
Prerequisites
Knowledge on basic chemistry on high school level is required.
In addition to 30 hours in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the classes spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University.
Related lecture : “Geochemistry”

Required Text(s) and Materials
“Pollution Chemistry” published by Maruzen-publishing (Author Mizukawa and Takada). It's in Japanese. ISBN : 978-4-621-08968-2
References
Environmental Organic Chemistry by R.P. Schwarzenbach et al. Wiley-International
Assessment/Grading
Evaluation is made based on grading of the report which is requested to be submitted after all the classes.
Message from instructor(s)
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Course keywords
Environmental pollution, endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs), POPs
Office hours
10 am to 6 pm on weekday. Responses will be made upon inquire through e-mail.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
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5/14/2021 7:02:26 PM