Learning Outcomes
Students for the course are expected to:
gain knowledge of basic concepts, principles and applications of modern chemistry with applications in chemical engineering.
develop their personal skills and critical judgment on basic knowledge of general, inorganic chemistry and chemistry of advanced materials
understand the theoretical pillars of general and inorganic chemistry, and will be in a position to apply the relevant principles in chemical engineering.
gain knowledge of the basic characteristics of qualitative chemical research in modern inorganic chemistry and understand its role in chemical engineering and current applications in modern hybrid technological materials.
Get trained on methodological and practical issues that may arise from the involvement of a contemporary chemical engineering researcher in the specific field
Course Content (Syllabus)
LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS
1. Redox Processes – Metal Reactivity
Chapter 1 Laboratory Book Pages 97-103
Chapter 3 Pages 88-125
Chapter 4 Pages 126-180
Chapter 12 Pages 499-518
2. Voltaic Cells
Chapter 4 Laboratory Book Pages 130-138
Chapter 19 Pages 796-831
3. Buffers - Hydrolysis
Chapter 2 Laboratory Book Pages 104-120
Chapter 3 Laboratory Book Pages 121-129
Chapter 16 Pages 704-724
4. Preparation of the Double Salt Potassium Aluminum Sulfate (alum)
Chapter 9 Laboratory book Pages 253-262
5. Determination of a complex composition. Job’s Method.
Chapter 8 Laboratory Book Pages 216-225
6. Determination of the Concentration of Permanganate and Dichromate ions in a Mixture through UV-Visible spectrophotometry
Chapter 5 Laboratory Book Pages 156-166
7. Compound Identification by FT-IR Spectroscopy.
Chapter 5 Laboratory Book Pages 167-182
8. Chromatographic Separation of cis- and trans- isomers of the Co(III)-iminodiacetato Complex
Chapter 11 Laboratory Book Pages 275-292
9. Chemical Kinetics
Determination of rate constants of chemical reactions
Chapter 6 Laboratory Book Pages 183-193
Chapter 13 Pages 549-606
10. Chemical Equilibrium
Determination of Equilibrium Constant of a Chemical Reaction
Chapter 7 Laboratory Book Pages 194-202
Chapter 14 Pages 607-649
Chapter 16 Pages 680-703
Caution! The laboratory experiments will be carried out in the order given above.
The aforementioned chapters come from the text book of the course
"General Chemistry by D.D. Ebbing and S.D. Gammon, Sixth Edition, 2002, Prentice Travlos."
References in the experiments come from the corresponding chapters in Lab Book of the Course.
Chapter 7 Laboratory Book Pages 194-202
Chapter 14 Pages 607-649
Chapter 16 Pages 680-703
Keywords
Reactions, redox processes, materials synthesis, environmental recycling materials processes, kinetics and thermodynamics of reactions, materials separation, spectroscopic detection and quantitative determination of metal ions in the environment, electronic and vibration spectroscopy.
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
1. Γενική Χημεία των D. D. Ebbing and S. D. Gammon, Έκτη Έκδοση, 2002, Εκδόσεις Τραυλού.
2. Εργαστηριακές Ασκήσεις Ανόργανης Χημείας, Α. Σαλίφογλου, Εργαστήριο Ανόργανης
Χημείας, Τμήμα Χημικών Μηχανικών, Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης.
Additional bibliography for study
1. Ασφάλεια και Κανόνες Συμπεριφοράς στο Εργαστήριο Χημείας, Α. Σαλίφογλου,
Εργαστήριο Ανόργανης Χημείας, Τμήμα Χημικών Μηχανικών, Αριστοτέλειο
Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης.
2. Γενική Χημεία, D. D. Ebbing and S. D. Gammon, Εκδοτικός Οίκος Τραυλός, Αθήνα
2002
3. Ανόργανη Χημεία, Αρχές Δομής και Δραστικότητα, Απόδοση στην Ελληνική γλώσσα
Ν. Χατζηλιάδης, Θ. Καμπανός, Σ. Περλεπές - James E. Huheey, Τρίτη Έκδοση, Εκδόσεις
ΙΩΝ, 1993.