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CEE 543, Autumn 2011

Aquatic Chemistry

Mark Benjamin                                        Class Sessions: MWF 8:30, T 9:30  More 221

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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

9/28

Introduction; Perspectives on Chemical Equilibrium;
Concentration Scales

Ch. 1

2

9/30

 NO CLASS (Chemical Kinetics) Ch. 2

3

10/3

Concentration and Activity; Activity Coefficients in Solution; Reaction Kinetics and Equilibrium

Ch. 1,2

4,5

10/4,5

Thermodynamic Fundamentals

Ch. 3

6

10/7

Thermodynamic Interpretation of Equilibrium

 

7

10/10

Acidity Constants, Acid Strength

Ch. 4

8,9

10/11,12

Graphical Representation of Acid/Base Equilibria

 

10

10/14

Mass and Charge Balances,
Numerical Solutions of Acid/Base Problems

 

11

10/17

Graphical Solutions to Acid/Base Problems, TOTH Equation

Ch. 5

12,13

10/18,19

Software for Chemical Equilibrium Problems; Visual Minteq

 Ch. 6

14

10/21

VM: Acids and Bases; Fixed Activity Species

  

15

10/24

 Titrations

Ch. 7

16,17

10/25,26

Alkalinity

 

18

10/28

Buffers

 

10/31

 Midterm Exam #1

19

11/1

Titrations, Alkalinity, and Buffers in VM

 

20,21

11/2,4

Gas/Liquid Equilibrium

Ch. 8

22

11/7

Gas/Liquid Equilibrium in VM

 

23

 11/8

Metals in Solution: Coordination Chemistry and Speciation

Ch. 9

24

11/9

Predominance Area Diagrams

 

 

11/11

 VETERANS’ DAY HOLIDAY  

25

11/14

Solution Equilibrium with Metal Hydroxides

 Ch. 10

26

11/15

Systems with Potential Precipitation of Metal Hydroxides

 

27

11/16

 Precipitation of Metal Carbonates and Phosphates  

28

11/18

Precipitation of Individual Solids in VM

 

29,30

11/21,22

Potential Precipitation of Multiple Solids

 

31

11/23

The Phase Rule; Predominance Area Diagrams with Solids

 

 

11/25

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

 

32,33

11/28,29

 Oxidation-Reduction Reactions: Introduction, Redox Speciation Ch. 11

 

11/30

Midterm Exam #2

 

34

 12/2 Analogies Between Redox and Acid/Base Reactions  

35

12/5

Redox Reactions in VM

 

36

12/6

Redox Reactions and Energy

 

37

12/7

 Redox Reactions and Electrochemistry

38

12/9

 Catch up, Review, Summarize  

 

12/13

FINAL EXAM, 8:30-10:20