Assignments

 

CEE 543, Autumn 2012

Aquatic Chemistry

Mark Benjamin                                        Class Sessions: MWThF 8:30  More 225

335 More Hall                                          206-543-7645 (v); 206-685-9185 (f)

markbenj@u.washington.edu                    Office Hrs: WF 3:30-4:20

http://faculty.washington.edu/markbenj/CEE543

Required Text: Water Chemistry, Benjamin (draft 2nd ed.)

Reference Texts: Water Chemistry, Brezonik and Arnold (Oxford, 2011)

Aquatic Chemistry, Stumm and Morgan (Wiley, 1996)

Water Chemistry, Snoeyink and Jenkins (Wiley, 1980)

Aqueous Environmental Geochemistry, Langmuir (Prentice-Hall, 1997)

Principles & Applications of Aquatic Chemistry, Morel and Hering (Wiley, 1993)

Session

Date

Topics

Reading

1

9/24

Introduction; Properties of water; Slides

Ch. 1

2

9/26

 NO CLASS (chemical kinetics) [Ch. 2]

3

9/27

Solutes in water; Concentration scales; Chemical reactivity; Standard states; Slides

Ch. 1,2

4

9/28

Chemical activity; activity coefficients in solution; Slides

Ch. 2

5

10/1

 Reaction kinetics and equilibrium; Slides

 

6,7

10/3,4

Thermodynamic fundamentals; Thermodynamic interpretation of equilibrium; Slides

Ch. 3

8

10/5

Acidity constants, acid strength Slides

Ch. 4

9,10

10/8,10

Graphical representation of acid/base equilibria; Slides_10-8; Slides_10-10

 

11

10/11

Mass and charge balances,
Numerical solutions of acid/base problems; Slides

 

12

10/12

Graphical solutions to acid/base problems;  Slides

Ch. 5
13

10/15

 Identifying dominant species;  Slides
14

10/17

 The TOTH equation; Slides  

15

10/18

Software for chemical equilibrium problems; Slides

 Ch. 6

16

10/19

Visual Minteq: Acids and bases; Fixed activity species

  

17

10/22

 Titrations

Ch. 7

18,19

10/24,25

Alkalinity; Slides 10-24; Slides 10-25

 
 

10/26

 Midterm exam #1  

20

10/29

Buffers

 

21

10/31

Titrations, alkalinity, and buffers in VM

 

22,23

11/1,2

Gas/liquid equilibrium; Slides 11-02

Ch. 8

24

11/5

Midterm exam #1b

 

25

 11/7

Acidic and basic gases;  Slides 11-07

 

26

11/8

Gas dissolution and alkalinity;

 

27

11/9

 Gas/liquid equilibrium in VM; Metals in solution: Coordination chemistry and speciation; Slides 11-09  
 

11/12

 VETERANS’ DAY HOLIDAY  

28

11/14

Predominance area diagrams; Solution equilibrium with metal hydroxides; Slides-full; Slides-4

Ch. 9 

29

11/15

Solution equilibrium with metal carbonates and phosphates;

Ch. 10

30

11/16

Systems with potential precipitation of solids;

 

31,32

11/19,21

Systems with potential precipitation of solids

 
 

11/22,23

 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY  

33

11/26

Precipitation of solids in VM; Predominance area diagrams with solids; Slides-full; Slides-4

 

34

11/28

Oxidation-reduction reactions: Introduction, redox speciation

Ch. 11

35

11/29

Analogies between redox and acid/base reactions; Slides-full; Slides-4

 

36

 11/30 Redox reactions and energy; Slides-full; Slides-4  

37

12/3

Midterm exam #2

 

38,39

12/5,6

Redox reactions in VM; Slides-full; Slides-4

 

40

12/7

 Redox reactions example problems; Example

 

12/11

FINAL EXAM, 8:30-10:20