Description
Book SynopsisIn the early days of environmental monitoring, chemists trained in the isolated walls of a laboratory before moving to the real world of sediment, soil, and industrial waste samples. Today, chemists are a little better prepared, but many still lack experience in developing procedures for problematic samples.
Trade Review“ … a most useful book to base the experimental aspects of an undergraduate environmental course on.” (
Applied Organometallic Chemistry, May 2005)
"...a good reference for educators involved in the design of an introductory environmental or instrumental chemistry laboratory." (Journal of Chemical Education, March 2005)
"Dunnivant offers some very good experiments in this book...the student CD-ROM was easy to enter and use." (CHOICE, February 2005)
"…this volume is an excellent set of environmental/analytical chemistry experiment." (Microchemical Journal, December 17, 2004)
"This textbook lays out standards for lab notebooks that might one day become evidence in a pollution case." (Environmental Science & Technology, December 2004)
Table of ContentsPreface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
To The Instructor xv
Part 1 Preliminary Exercises
1 How to Keep a Legally Defensible Laboratory Notebook 3
2 Statistical Analysis 7
3 Field Sampling Equipment for Environmental Samples 19
Part 2 Experiments for Air Samples
4 Determination of Henry’s Law Constants 33
5 Global Warming: Determining If a Gas is Infrared Active 49
6 Monitoring the Presence of Hydrocarbons in Air around Gasoline Stations 61
Part 3 Experiments for Water Samples
7 Determination of an Ion Balance for a Water Sample 73
8 Measuring the Concentration of Chlorinated Pesticides in Water Samples 83
9 Determination of Chloride, Bromide, and Fluoride in Water Samples 93
10 Analysis of Nickel Solutions by Ultraviolet–Visible Spectrometry 101
Part 4 Experiments for Hazardous Waste
11 Determination of the Composition of Unleaded Gasoline Using Gas Chromatography 113
12 Precipitation of Metals from Hazardous Waste 123
13 Determination of the Nitroaromatics in Synthetic Wastewater from a Munitions Plant 143
14 Determination of a Surrogate Toxic Metal in a Simulated Hazardous Waste Sample 151
15 Reduction of Substituted Nitrobenzenes by Anaerobic Humic Acid Solutions 167
Part 5 Experiments for Sediment and Soil Samples
16 Soxhlet Extraction and Analysis of a Soil or Sediment Sample Contaminated with n-Pentadecane 179
17 Determination of a Clay–Water Distribution Coefficient for Copper 191
Part 6 Wet Experiments
18 Determination of Dissolved Oxygen in Water Using the Winkler Method 207
19 Determination of the Biochemical Oxygen Demand of Sewage Influent 217
20 Determination of Inorganic and Organic Solids in Water Samples: Mass Balance Exercise 233
21 Determination of Alkalinity of Natural Waters 245
22 Determination of Hardness in a Water Sample 257
Part 7 Fate and Transport Calculations
23 pC–pH Diagrams: Equilibrium Diagrams for Weak Acid and Base Systems 267
24 Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Rivers and Streams 277
25 Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Lake Systems 285
26 Fate and Transport of Pollutants in Groundwater Systems 293
27 Transport of Pollutants in the Atmosphere 303
28 Biochemical Oxygen Demand and the Dissolved Oxygen Sag Curve in a Stream: Streeter–Phelps Equation 317
Appendix A Periodic Table 327
Index 329
