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Environmental Chemistry

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This course is highly valuable for civil and environmental engineering students, as well as professionals working in environmental monitoring and pollution control. It helps learners understand the chemical basis of environmental regulations, treatment processes, and pollution mitigation strategies. The knowledge gained is essential for careers in environmental engineering, public health, sustainability, and regulatory compliance.

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You work in Pharmaceutical & Healthcare
You're a Civil & Structural / Health, Safety & Environmental professional
You have 3+ years of hands-on experience in this field
You prefer self-paced learning you can revisit

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You're new to this field with no prior experience
You need a different specialisation outside Civil & Structural
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Course details

The Environmental Chemistry course focuses on the chemical processes that occur in natural and engineered environmental systems. It explains how chemical reactions influence air, water, and soil quality and how pollutants interact, transform, and persist in the environment. The course builds a strong foundation for understanding environmental pollution, its impacts, and the chemical principles behind pollution control technologies.

The course covers chemical equilibria, reaction kinetics, and thermodynamics as applied to environmental systems. Emphasis is placed on water and wastewater chemistry, atmospheric chemistry, soil chemistry, and the behavior of contaminants. By the end of the course, learners gain the ability to analyze environmental problems from a chemical perspective and support sustainable environmental management practices.

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Key topics covered

Fundamentals of environmental chemistry
Chemical equilibrium and reaction kinetics
Acid–base chemistry and buffering systems
Water chemistry and water quality parameters
Chemistry of wastewater treatment processes
Atmospheric chemistry and air pollutants
Soil chemistry and contaminant interactions
Fate and transport of pollutants
Chemical aspects of environmental regulations
Analytical techniques for environmental monitoring

Course content

The course is readily available, allowing learners to start and complete it at their own pace.

29 lectures15 hr 34 min

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Q: You're sanity-checking an air permit calc and google "estimate stack NOx concentration from gas turbine exhaust ppm to mg per Nm3". A simple-cycle turbine exhaust is 25 ppmv NOx (as NO2 equivalent) at 3% O2, dry. Order-of-magnitude, what concentration do you expect in mg/Nm3?

Q: You're reviewing a P&ID and search "wastewater neutralization tank pH probe location drawing inconsistency". The drawing shows a single pH probe upstream of the caustic injection quill, but the instrument list tags it as "final effluent pH". What’s the real issue?

Q: Operations logs show rising ammonia in effluent. You search "biological nitrification upset cold weather low DO symptoms". Influent load is steady, temperature dropped from 22°C to 14°C, and DO is trending at 1.0 mg/L. What’s the most likely root cause?

Q: For a scrubber handling moist SO2 at 60°C, you google "material selection for wet SO2 scrubber corrosion". Chloride is negligible, pH is 2–3. Which material choice holds up best?