Jun 30, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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EVT 2500 - Analysis of Environmental Pollutants
Covers important techniques necessary for analyzing environmental samples. Methods established by EPA are used to analyze samples for heavy metals, volatiles, and semi-volatiles.
Requisites: EVT 2500L concurrent
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze data spectra for compound identification.
- Create internal standards, surrogate standards, and matrix spike standards.
- Describe Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry.
- Describe UV/VIS Spectrophotometry.
- Describe environmental analysis methods provided by EPA, OSHA, and NIOSH.
- Describe environmental analysis.
- Describe gas chromatography and mass spectrometry.
- Perform analysis for an environmental sample via GC/MS.
- Perform analysis for an environmental sample via UV/VIS.
- Perform tuning of a mass spectrometer.
- Write an environmental analysis report per EPA/OSHA guidelines.
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