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Envir Chem at KMUTT-JGSEE – Jun. –Sept., 09. Time: Location: http://www.unc.edu/courses/2009fall/enst/430/001/ Rich Kamens; kamens@unc.edu http://www.unc.edu/~kamens/. Textbook
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Envir Chem at KMUTT-JGSEE – Jun. –Sept., 09 • Time: • Location: • http://www.unc.edu/courses/2009fall/enst/430/001/ • Rich Kamens; • kamens@unc.edu • http://www.unc.edu/~kamens/
Textbook • Environmental Chemistry by Colin Beard and Michael Cann, ISBN > ISBN-13 978-1-4292-0146-0 , publishers W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 773 pages, 2008
Who is Richard Kamens • Professor of Atmospheric chemistry and teach graduate classes in Environmental chemistry • Direct a smog chamber research group • Focus on aerosol formation in the atmosphere • Direct a student exchange program between UNC and Thai Universities
Gas/Particle partitioning of toxics organics on different aerosols
We generate models to predict organic aerosol formation in the atmosphere from smog chamber experiments • Numerical fitting • Semi-explicit
cis-pinonaldhyde Gas phase reactions C=O C=O O O particle Link gas and particle phases
kon koff particle C=O O kon koff • [ igas] + [part] [ipart] Kp = kon/koff
+ CO, HO OH 2, CHO O norpinonaldehyde COOH O O O O norpinonic O acid Criegee1 3 COOH O O O pinonic acid O a -pinene CH CHO O 3 + other O COOH products Criegee2 COOH pinic acid Mechanism
Overall kinetic Mechanism • linked gas and particle phase rate expressions
Chemical System + NOx+ sunlight + ozone----> aerosols a-pinene
data NO model O3 NO2 ppmV NO2 Time in hours EST 0.95 ppm a-pinene + 0. 44ppm NOx
O O 3 mg/m Gas phase pinonaldehdye Time in hours EST
3 mg/m Measured particle mass vs. model Particle phase Particle phase data 3 mg/m model TSP model TSP Time in hours EST
The Thai-CEP Undergraduate/Graduate Exchange Program The UNC-Thailand Field site • Pollution does not understand boarders. • We must begin to address these problems from both inside and outside ones culture.
General Approach • Since 2001, UNC-CEP undergraduates participated in a 6+ month experience in Thailand that begins at the end of May 2001 • Small groups of UNC students come together with Thai students to study and work on a research project at various Thai universities. • Thai students will go back with UNC students for a semester at UNC.
Classes UNC students take 3 direct contact/web-based environmental classes • Atmospheric and ecotoxicology • LCA • Energy and the Environment • Climate Change and Eco • Biomass and Energy • Energy and the Environ
Feasibility of Ethanol Use and an Energy Analysis and Environmental Impact of Ethanol in Thailand:KMUTT 2001- 2002
The Feasibility of Bio-diesel Production as Petroleum Substitute in Thailand: KMUTT 2004 Energy balance Used vegetable oil Production from Jatropha
Water Quality Report:Mae Kha Canal & Ping River: CMU, Chiang Mai, 2004
Long standing relationship with Peking Universityand CRAESSince 1983 there were 13 visiting Chinese scholars in our research group at UNC
Introduction to Environmental Physical Organic Chemistry • Environmental chemistry may be defined as "the study of sources, reactions, transport, effects, and fates of chemical species in water, soil, and air environments, and the effects of technology thereon.” Manahan, 1994
Class objectives: • Highlight some important areas in environmental chemistry • present some of the common techniques that environmental chemists use to quantify process that occur in the environment • It is assumed that everyone has courses in organic and physical chemistry.
Class objectives: • We will cover general topics: Global warming, Strat. O3, aerosols, photochemical smog, acid rain, etc. • Develop relationships will be used to help quantify equilibrium and kinetic processes
Thermodynamics • ui = uo1 +RT ln pi/p*iL • fi = i Xipi*pure liquid • RT lnfi hx /fiopure liq = RT lnfi H2O/fiopure liqfihx = fi H2O • ln Kp = a 1/T+b
Vapor pressure How to calculate boiling points
Vapor pressure and Henry’s law sat P sat sat * i K P V iL iw sat iaw iw C iw Solubility and activity coefficients Octanol-water partitioning coefficients
Homework, quizzes, exams • There will be example homework exercises; These types of questions will appear on exams.
Why the interest? There are more than 100,000 synthetic chemicals that are in daily use: solvents components of detergents dyes and varnishes additives in plastics and textiles chemicals used for construction antifouling agents herbicides, insecticides,fungicides
Some examples of environmental chemicals Polynuclear Aromatic HC (PAHs) Dioxins Ketones PCBs CFCs DDT O3, NO2, aerosols, SO2
PAHs Formed from small ethylene radicals “building blocks” produced when carbon based fuels are burned Sources are all types of burning in ChiangMai, Thailand:a) 2-stroke motorcycle engines b) cars- light diesels c) open burning d) barbecued meat??
Combustion Formation of PAH Badger and Spotswood 1960
PAHs Metabolized to epoxides which are carcinogenic; O PAH are indirect acting mutagens in bacterial mutagenicity tests (Ames-TA98+s9) methyl PAHs are often more biologically active than PAHs
Carcinogenic tests with PAHs Professor Gernot Grimmer extracted different types of smoke particles He then took the extract and applied it to mouse skin and implanted it into rat lungs How did he obtain extracts? How did he fractionate his extracts??
Extraction by soxhlet extraction starts with solvent (MeCl2) in a flask
Extraction by soxhlet extraction starts with solvent (MeCl2) in a flask MeCl2
Evaporated solvent goes into a water cooled condenser where hot solvent drips out Heat