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Course Descriptions

Fundamental Contaminant Chemistry

Fundamental Contaminant Chemistry Refresher for Working Professionals

Course ID: CHEM-403A
Status: OPEN
Date(s): Nov 15, 2010: 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Location: Holiday Inn - Conference Center Downtown
Helena, MT
Instructor: Erick McWayne
Tuition: $350 / $295*

(Course 1 of 3 in a series)

 

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This course provides participants with an overview/refresher of key chemistry concepts associated with environmental contamination and provides a foundation for understanding contaminant transport, fate, and remediation. This material is intended for environmental professionals who are not chemists and require a fundamental understanding of chemistry principles for their work. This course is recommended for all environmental professionals working with contaminated soil and water with minimal formal training in the subject. It is also recommended for project managers seeking a review of contaminant chemistry. This course includes a review of chemical naming rules (e.g., understanding what 1,1,1-TCA is) and how to use chemical names to predict molecular geometry and environmental behavior.

This course is part of a series, and is immediately followed by the Contaminant Chemistry and Transport in Soil and Groundwater Workshop and Monitored Natural Attenuation Workshop. Attendees may register for either course individually or both courses. A discount applies when registering for both courses. Attendees will be given the opportunity to apply the course material during hands on exercises offered throughout the course.

Prerequisites: Some college level chemistry is required (even if it was a long time ago).

Education Level: Fundamental overview/refresher

Course Materials: Each participant will receive a copy of the course proceedings including notes and reference material on the first day of the course.

Continuing Education Units: 0.75 CEUs

Registration: $295
This course is a flat fee with no discounted rate available. An additional discount applies when registering for CHEM-403A and CHEM-403B. You may register via the link below or by calling the Northwest Environmental Training Center at 425-270-3274.

Please wait to receive a course confirmation email, roughly one month prior to the class, before making any travel arrangements.


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Course Topics

  • Overview of Physical and Chemical Properties of Contaminants (S, Koc, Kow, KH, TB, TM)
  • Periodic Chart Applications to Remediation
  • Isotopes, Ions, and Chemical Bonds
  • Predicting Molecular Geometry and Behavior
  • Solubility Rules, Precipitation, and Applications for Inorganic
  • Remediation Chemical Reactions, Kinetics, and Thermodynamics
  • Stoichiometry (balancing reactions)
  • Oxidation States and Redox Reactions
  • Chemical Equilibrium and Limiting Reactants
  
  • Empirical, Chemical, and Structural Formulas
  • Mass-Based and Molar-Based Concentrations
  • Visualizing Molecules with Lewis Dot Notation
  • Polyatomic Oxoanions (nitrate, phosphate, chromate, perchlorate, permanganate, etc.)
  • Organic Molecules and IUPAC Nomenclature
  • Functional Groups - Alcohols, Aldehydes, Amines, Aromatics, Ethers, Ketones, and Organometallics
  • BTEX - Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and Xylene

About the Instructor

Pamela Schultz received a B.A. in Chemistry from Providence College in 1992. She worked at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory while completing her M.S. in Environmental Sciences and Engineering from Clemson University in 1996. After receiving her M.S., she worked as a senior environmental engineer at Merck & Co., Inc., conducting contaminant transport modeling and human health risk assessments for air permitting and remediation projects. In 1999, she joined RTI International as a research environmental engineer, conducting multimedia fate and transport modeling to support U.S. EPA decision making. In the fall of 2004, she entered the graduate program in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina studying the behavior of dense non-aqueous liquids in porous media under Dr. Cass T. Miller. Her research has focused on the characterization and remediation of tar contaminated media at former manufactured gas plants. She received her PhD in 2011.

What to Bring

Scientific calculator, mechanical pencil, coffee mug and water bottle (to reduce waste). Please wear comfortable clothing appropriate for the prevailing weather.


 

Cancellation Policy / Disability Accommodations

Cancellation Policy

  • 31 days prior to training -> 100% refund
  • 30-16 days prior to training -> 50% refund
  • 15 - start of course -> No refund available

Attendee replacement acceptable at anytime.

Course registration fees and cancellation policy are subject to change without notice.
 

Disability Accommodations

To request disability accommodations, please contact us at info@nwetc.org or 425-270-3274 at least 30 days prior to the event.

Related Courses

Applied Contaminant Chemistry and Transport in Soil and Groundwater

(Course 2 of 3 in a series)

Course ID: CHEM-403B
Status: OPEN
Date(s): Nov 16, 2010
Nov 17, 2010
Location: Helena, MT
Instructor: Erick McWayne
Tuition: $595 / $495*



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To: 22 North Last Chance Gulch Helena, MT 59601

 



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*Reduced Rates: Reduced tuition is available to Native American Tribes;
nonprofits; government agencies; students; and NEBC, NWAEP, and NAEP members. Learn more

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