Unit ADVANCED METHODOLOGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE
- Course
- Chemical sciences
- Study-unit Code
- A002671
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- David Michele Cappelletti
- Teachers
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- David Michele Cappelletti
- Aldo Romani (Codocenza)
- Hours
- 33 ore - David Michele Cappelletti
- 14 ore (Codocenza) - Aldo Romani
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- CHIM/12
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- General aspects of chemical analysis of environment and artistic and cultural heritage; Description of the environmental sectors and museum environment, characteristic parameters; On-line and off-line instrumentation; Sampling techniques and protocols; Invasive and non-invasive analysis techniques; In-situ and remote measurements; Sample treatment methods. Elementary analysis in ICP-AES, and ICP-MS; Exercises in the environment: according to the conditions, sampling and analysis of water or soil or air.
- Reference texts
- Skoog - Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry Mahan - Environmental Chemistry
- Educational objectives
- The successful student should be able to correctly set up and deal with all the phases of an environmental chemical analysis or the chemical characterization of a historical artistic find; in particular the acquired knowledge will allow to evaluate the most suitable sampling and analysis techniques in the laboratory according to the problem to be faced.
- Prerequisites
- Basic knowledge of analytical chemistry and instrumental analytical chemistry
- Teaching methods
- Lectures, sampling in the field and laboratory analysis experiences.
- Other information
- nn
- Learning verification modality
- Laboratory reports and oral examination of the course contents
- Extended program
- Atmospheric structure and fundamental physical and chemical quantities; on-line instrumentation for the characterisation of the main atmospheric parameters; instrumentation for the measurement of gases and aerosols (spectroscopic techniques, cabin monitors, sensors). Hydrosphere and measurement techniques and characterization of water in the environment. Cryosphere and techniques of characterization of snow and ice. Water and sediment sampling techniques. Soil structure and soil sampling techniques. Not invasive analytical techniques: X-ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy, FT near- and mid-infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy. After a brief review of the physical principles characterizing spectroscopic techniques, the most recently used analytical methods, including multi- and hyper-spectral imaging and mapping, and applications of these methods to the problems of environmental chemistry and cultural heritage will be addressed.