INSTRUMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY: LABORATORY

Degree course: 
Corso di First cycle degree in CHEMICAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY
Academic year when starting the degree: 
2022/2023
Year: 
3
Academic year in which the course will be held: 
2024/2025
Course type: 
Compulsory subjects, characteristic of the class
Credits: 
6
Period: 
Second semester
Standard lectures hours: 
72
Detail of lecture’s hours: 
Exercise (72 hours)
Assessment: 
Voto Finale

Oral lectures (12h):
a)Solvent extraction and solid phase extraction pre-concentration techniques (2h);
b)passive sampling techniques of gases (1h);
c) Gaschromatographic methods for the determination of: BTEX, PCB, chlorinated pesticides, fatty acids composition of oils (4h);
d)Micro wave assisted wet digestion of solids (1h);
e)ETAAS and ICP-MS elemental determinations (2h);
f)FTIR determination of hydrocarbons (2h).
Labortory activities (60 ore): utilisation of the explained methods.

The module will be taught during 12 h of lectures and 60 h of laboratory practice. All laboratory activities will be done i groups of 3-4 students: tipically, in every day of lab practice each group will perform one of the proposed method. Every group will be followed by a lab assistant: at the end of each lab day every group will submit the obtained results. With a planned rotation, every group will perform all proposed activities.

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