CHEM 1230 Chemical and Biological Environment Remediation

This course focuses on environmental remediations and the current methodology in assessing and cleaning up contaminated environments by green chemistry approaches. Growing awareness regarding environmental protection, environmental pollution prevention, safer industrial ecology and cleaner production technologies has propelled tremendous efforts towards eliminating pollution problems and protecting public health and the environment. Understanding environmental contamination across the state of NJ, and green chemistry approaches, are a key necessity to eliminate or minimize any side
effects of remediation activities towards contaminated water, air and soil. The first part of the course will be dedicated to the land-use and industrialization history that lead to contamination across NJ, developing skills for historical environmental research and risk assessment, understanding the framework of environmental regulation, and real-world case-studies of contamination. The second part of the course will focus on green chemical approaches for environmental remediation, including water treatment, air purification, and groundwater and soil remediation. Prerequisite(s): ENV 1100 Cross Listed Course(s): ENV 1200
Credits: 3.0