Natural and environmental sciences

Professor
Academic discipline: Mineralogia (GEO/06)
Field: A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity: Student's choice

48 hours
of face-to-face activities

6 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

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Learning objectives

Learn the basics about minerals and environment, identify the most suitable techniques to analyse real case studies.

Prerequisites

Basic mineralogy and chemistry

Course unit content

The course will introduce the fundamental concepts of the mineralogy and their relationship with environmental and anthropogenic processes.
Several case-studies on asbestos minerals, waste from incinerator processes, technological and synthetic minerals, man-made artefact, air pollution particle will illustrate the complexity of the environmental mineralogy.

Full programme

Hazardous minerals like asbestos in nature and in working places.
Mineral dust. Origin, characterization.
Carachterization of waste to energy products. Minerals in bottom and fly ashes.
Microporous materials and inclusion compounds: clays and zeolites.
Analytical techniques, XRD,SEM-EDS, Raman spectroscopy, XRF, ICPMS, TEM...

Bibliography

PPT presentation posted on Elly

Textbooks (and optional supplementary readings):

Environmental Mineralogy, 2000/2012, Eds. David J. Vaughn and Roy A. Wogelius. EMU Notes in Mineralogy, 2. Eotvos University Press, Budapest.

Mineralogia, 2004, di Cornelis Klein, ed. Zanichelli

Teaching methods

Lectures by the teacher, specific seminars by invited lecturers, exercises on the interpretation of data from SEM-EDS, XRD, Raman spectroscopy and other techniques.

Assessment methods and criteria

personal discussion on selected topic

Other information

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ENVIRONMENTAL MINERALOGY cod. 1005894