This lab course provides an in-depth overview of the various steps that have to be carried out when analyzing qualitatively and quantitatively organic pollutants in environmental matrices such as soil and surface waters.

What happens to chemicals in the environment? How do we determine whether they degrade over decades and accumulate in the food chain? Answers to these questions are provided in this lecture, which covers basic knowledge about distribution behavior, environmental analysis, abiotic and biotic degradation reactions, and toxic effects of chemicals as part of environmental chemical risk analysis.

During this course, students will learn how to model the concentration dynamics of organic contaminants in lakes, rivers, and groundwaters.

This course is focused on environmental transformation reactions of organic chemical contaminants. An overview of important fate processes of organic pollutants will be given, along with a discussion of the factors that determine pathways and rates of transformation reactions. Special emphasis will be given to redox transformations, photochemical reactions, and enzyme-catalyzed processes.

Im ersten Teil der Veranstaltung werden die wichtigsten Transport-, Verteilungs- und Transformationsprozesse anhand von praktischen Beispielen illustriert. Danach sollen diese Kenntnisse an ausführlichen Fallbeispielen in Gruppen angewendet und vertieft werden.Die Lehrveranstaltung besteht aus (1) gemeinsamen Kontaktstunden für die Bearbeitung der Einführungsbeispiele, (2) Fragestunden, für Bearbeitung der Fallstudien und (3) gemeinsamen Päsentation Ergebnisse.