Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Learning objectives

Knowledge

Students who have passed the module should be able to

• Explain the fundamental physical principles governing selected apparatus for instrumental chemical analysis, including chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques
• Explain the fundamental physical principles forming the basis for alternatives to the selected instrumental chemical analysis methods
• Account for the chemistry that forms the basis of sample preparation for the above selected instrumental chemical analysis techniques
• Account for spectroscopic methods that may be utilized for qualitative analysis of various organic, inorganic or organometallic substances

Skills

• Perform relevant stoichiometric calculations and use common glassware in the laboratory
• Perform analytical chemical experiments based on written instructions and achieve a reproducible result
• Write and balance any and all chemical reaction schemes forming the foundation of the instructions for the analysis
• Calculate the thermodynamic affinity for the applied reactions from the point of reference
• Perform relevant statistical calculations on the results of a series of analysis on selected instruments
• Perform general calculations of the uncertainty in the measurements based on the obtained results
• Identify appropriate experimental methods for qualitative determination of substance properties

Competences

• Select and evalaute imaginable analysis equipment in the laboratory for a chemical analysis of a product or a given process under consideration of time and economical aspects

Type of instruction

• Lectures, laboratory exercises and theoretical exercises

Extent and expected workload

150 hours

Exam

Exams