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UNIWERSITY OF WARSAW

1 Pasteura Str., 02-093 Warsaw, Poland, phone: +48 (0)22 822 02 11

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Subject

Trace Analysis of Organic Compounds
in the Environment


No / course unit code


Semester

2M

Type of course

Specialisation Lecture


Teaching hours
 per semester    per week

30      2

ECTS credits

(...)


Lecturer:

Dr. hab. Tomasz Gierczak
Room: R164     Phone extn.:416     email: gierczak@chem.uw.edu.pl

Teaching Division:

Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

Educational and
professional goals:

Courses on high resolution gas chromatography are offered aimed to broaden understanding of the trace analysis of organic pollutants in the environment (air, water, soil), also gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC/MS) technique, and sampling methods are covered.

Course description:

Capillary gas chromatography: separation mechanism, interaction in solution, stationary phases, retention index, signal separation, capillary columns, temperature programming, detectors, qualitative and quantitative analysis. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry: mass spectrometry basics, ionization methods, high resolution and quadrupole spectrometers, qualitative analysis using GC/MS, single ion monitoring (SIM), tandem mass spectrometry (MS/MS), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC/MS), solving a structure using mass spectrometry. Sampling and sample preparation prior to chromatographic analysis:
(I) air: whole air sampling, adsorptive sample enrichment, cryogenic sampling, analytes recovery;
(II) water: sampling, liquid-liquid extraction, solid phase extraction (SPE and SPME), head space analysis;
(III) soil: preparation of soil samples, Soxhlet extraction,, sample clean up and enrichment. Uncertainty in environmental analysis.

Required background:


Analytical and physical chemistry for undergraduate students.

Form of assessment:


Written test.

Remarks:

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