Unit APPLIED GEOCHEMISTRY
- Course
- Geology for energy resources
- Study-unit Code
- GP006021
- Location
- PERUGIA
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Carlo Cardellini
- Teachers
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- Carlo Cardellini
- Hours
- 42 ore - Carlo Cardellini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline mineralogiche, petrografiche e geochimiche
- Academic discipline
- GEO/08
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Learn the basics with regard to the concepts of Geochemistry applied to exploration of resources, to the environmental problems and to the processes of generation, maturation, alteration and migration of hydrocarbons. Methodologies for geochemical data analysis.
- Reference texts
- The course material will be provided by the teacher.
The preparation can be integrated by:
1) Natural Gas Seepage, The Earth's Hydrocarbon degassing, Authors: Ethiopian, Giuseppe. Springer ISBN 978-3-319-14600-3 ISBN 978-3-319-14601-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007 / 978-3-319-14601-0
2) Petroleum Formation and Occurrence: Anew Approach to Oil and Gas Exploration. Authors: B. P. Tissot D. H. Welte. Springer-Verlag. ISBN-13: 978-3-642-96448-0 e-ISBN-13: 978-3-642-96446-6
DOT: 1 0.1 007 / 978-3-642-96446-6 - Educational objectives
- Knowledge and understanding of the concepts of the Geochemistry applied to exploration of natural resources, to the environmental problems and to the processes of generation, maturation, alteration and migration of hydrocarbons. Applying knowledge to geochemical data elaboration and interpretation.
- Prerequisites
- - Knowledge of English: indispensable.
- Mathematical and statistical basis: helpful
- Fundamentals of the geochemistry of water solutions: helpful
- Fundamentals of the geochemistry of gases: helpful
- Fundamentals of the geochemistry of stable isotopes: helpful - Teaching methods
- The lectures will take place as face-to-face lecture for many of the arguments with exception of practical training on the use of geostatistics software dedicated to processing (mapping) of the geological and geochemical data.
- Other information
- For information on the official dates of the lectures you can consult the exam timetable to the site
http://www.fisica.unipg.it/fisgejo/index.php/it/didattica/corsi-di-laurea-in-geologia/msc-in-geology-for-energy-resources-new/orario-delle-lezioni.html - Learning verification modality
- The evaluation is organized in two Progress assessments during the lectures or a final exam if the Progress assessments are not passed
Progress assessments:
- number of tests that are taken into account: 2
- objective test: Assessment of the main concepts and their applications
- mode of administration: Multiple choice written exam
- timing of development: half term assessment and final assessment
- Duration of the assessment: 1 hour
- type: written in stimulus ended and closed-ended
- measurement of the final exam: vote of thirty
Final exam:
- number of tests that are taken into account: 1
- objective test: Assessment of the main concepts and their applications
- mode of administration: Oral exams
- Duration of the assessment: about 30
- typology: open-ended stimulus interview test
- final measurement of the exam: mark expressed out of thirty
For information on support services for students with disabilities and / or SLD, visit the page http://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa - Extended program
- 1) General aspects of geochemistry.
- Definition of geochemical spheres and geochemical cycles.
- Distribution of the chemical elements in the various geochemical spheres.
- Principles of isotope geochemistry of stable isotopes
2) Geochemical Prospecting.
- Fundamentals of geochemical prospecting.
- Mobility of the elements in conditions of high PT and surface environment.
- Mechanical dispersion and chemical weathering in primary and secondary environment; geochemical associations.
- Definition of geochemical baseline, anomaly and threshold.
- Examples of geochemical prospecting.
3) Methods for geochemical survey
- Approaches to prospecting.
- Methods for the sampling of water and gas.
- Analytical methods for the determination of the chemical and isotopic composition of water.
- Methods for chemical analysis and isotopic gas.
- Methods for the measurement of gas flux from the soil
- Methodologies for representing compositional data
- Statistical and geostatistical methods for the handling of spatial data: theory and practice with dedicated software.
4) Geochemistry of organic compounds
- Types and nomenclature of organic compounds
- The organic compounds of oil
- Diagenesis, Methanogenesis, catagenesis
- Isotopes of carbon in the evolution of kerogen
- Abiotic origin of organic compounds: main processes
- Natural Gas Seepage, the outgassing of organic compounds: processes, methods of investigation / measurement, case studies.
- Geochemistry of gas seepage for the evaluation of the petroleum system.
- Behavior and impact of organic compounds on the environment (soil, water and air)
5) Geochemistry of water
- The water cycle, from the rain to the groundwater: main geochemical processes.
- The water cycle and stable isotopes: applications environmental and hydrogeological study of water isotopes.
- Application of stable carbon isotopes to environmental studies and exploration.
- Processes of gas-water-rock interaction.