Unit ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY
- Course
- Natural and environmental sciences and technologies
- Study-unit Code
- 55003706
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Paola Comodi
- Teachers
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- Paola Comodi
- Hours
- 42 ore - Paola Comodi
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline di scienze della terra
- Academic discipline
- GEO/06
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course will address environmental and health issues related to the exploitation-use-disposal of geo-resources, the role of geo-resources in energy/technology transition, and environmental remediation.
In partiular, the following issues will be addressedp :
1) environmental and human health risks of exposure to hazardous minerals
2) potential and limitations of minerals as resources for a sustainable energy and technology transition
3) problems associated with the sourcing and exploitation of raw materials. Post-exploitation remediation techniques
4) porous materials for remediation of polluted systems. - Educational objectives
- Provide the tools to understand how the world of minerals can create both important environmental and health problems but also opportunities for their solution
- Prerequisites
- Some basic knowledge of mineralogy and geochemistry
- Teaching methods
- frontal lectures
- Learning verification modality
- oral examination, with the possibility of taking a seminar on a topic of the student's choice
- Extended program
- The course intends to provide knowledge on environmental and health issues related to the exploitation-use-disposal of geo-resources in everyday life.
Starting with basic information on mineralogy that will enable the student to enter the world of crystalline systems with well-coded rules and behaviors, topics such as:
1) environmental and human health risks of exposure to hazardous minerals
2) potential and limitations of minerals as resources for a sustainable energy and technology transition
3) problems associated with the sourcing and exploitation of raw materials. Post-exploitation remediation techniques
4) porous materials for remediation of polluted systems.
Information and exercises on basic methodologies for geo materials characterization will also be provided in the course: optical and electron microscopies, X-ray diffraction and fluorescence, IR and Raman spectroscopy - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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