“Organic Chemistry” (code UC01) – undergraduate

Teacher

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Prof. Youssri Ahmed, Prof. Abou Shabana Moustafa, Prof. Laila Reda, Prof. Saad Ismail

Upgraded by

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

Description

The course provides principles of organic chemistry, including, among other topics:

·         Classes of chemical reactions

·         Mechanism of organic reactions

·         Hydrocarbons, alkanes, alkenes and alkynes

·         Isomerism

·         Aromatic hydrocarbons

Attendants

Undergraduate students, first year, Faculty of Agriculture

Avg. attendants

The average number of attending students per year is 200

Started on

Academic Year 2003-2004

Updated topics

1.       Impact of chemical industry and chemicals, global warming, ozone depletion, resource depletion and contamination

2.       Principles of green chemistry

3.       Atom economy, examples of maleic anhydride and others

4.       Type of atom economy, addition reaction, rearrangement reactions

5.       Type of atom uneconomic reactions, substitution reactions, elimination reactions

6.       Use of alternative feed-stocks and  alternative synthesis routes, adipic acid synthesis, and others

7.       Biocatalysis, synthesis of acrlylamide

8.       Use of non – toxic substances, polycarbonate synthesis, and others

9.       Supercritical liquids, SC Carbon dioxide, its use

10.    Solventless conditions

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1. Principle of Green Chemistry (zipped powerpoint file)
2. Green/Sustainable Chemistry (zipped powerpoint file)
   
   

“Water Pollution” (code UC02) – undergraduate

Teacher

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Prof. Laila Aly Reda

Upgraded by

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

Description

The purpose of the course is to provide students with general information about water pollution causes, and the impact of pollution on fisheries and other components of aquatic environment. The course covers, among others, the following aspects:

·         Sources of water pollution, including point and non – point pollution, agricultural, industrial, municipal and other sources.

·         Classification of water pollutants, including heavy metals, other inorganic compounds such as tributyl tin, pesticides, nutrients, petroleum pollution, and others

·         Impact of pollutants, including acute and chronic effects

·         Biomagnification and bioaccumulation of pollutants in aquatic environment

Attendants

The course is given in the first term, September – January, to third year students, Faculty of Agriculture (Fisheries branch)

Avg. attendants

The average number of attending students per year is 17

Started on

Academic Year 2003-2004

Updated topics

1.       Persistent organic pollutants POPs, their impact including endocrine disturbing effect, and the international legislation of POPs

2.       Green chemistry application and water pollution, the use of safe compounds to replace environmentally hazardous ones, with reference to the potential environmentally harmful agent tributyl tin TBT

3.       Indicators, including environmental pressure indicators, state indicators and response indicators  and their role in pollution studies.

4.       Environmental management systems EMS, including environmental impact assessment, life cycle analysis and risk assessment

5.       The use of ecotoxicological modeling i of uptake and elimination of toxicants in fishes

1. Indictors Organisms - An Overview (zipped powerpoint file)
2. Heavy metals pollution (zipped powerpoint file)
3. Lakes Wastewater (zipped powerpoint file)
4. pH, Alkalinity, Oil Pollution (zipped powerpoint file)
5. Water Pollution
   Third Year, Fisheries (zipped powerpoint file)
6. Water Pollution
   Third Year, Fisheries toxicity (zipped powerpoint file)
7. Water Pollution
   Third Year, Fisheries II (zipped powerpoint file)

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“ Principles of Pest Control (code UC03) – undergraduate

Teacher

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Professor Saad Ismail, Prof. Laila Aly Reda

Upgraded by

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Prof. Laila Aly Reda

Description

The course is to provide information about methods used in pest control with special reference to the use of chemical agents and the use of pest management as a viable tool for pest control and environmental protection

Attendants

The course is given to third year students, Faculty of Agriculture (Plant Protection branch) in the second term, February- June.

Avg. attendants

The average number of attending students per year is 25

Started on

Academic Year 2003-2004

Updated topics

1.       Ecosystems, ecosystems goods and services and population dynamics

2.       Environmental impacts of long-term DDT usage and other persistent non selective pesticides, biological magnification, food and water contamination, chronic health problems.

3.       Principles of modeling in population dynamics

4.       Green chemistry, principles of risk assessment and the minimization of chemical risks

5.       Green pesticides, biopesticides, biodegradable pesticides, selective pesticides  and  the use of naturally occurring materials as safe pesticides

6.       The search for new safe pesticides, selective pesticides

7.       Safe formulation of pesticides and safe use

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1. Lesson 1 (zipped powerpoint file)
2. Lesson 2 (zipped powerpoint file)
3. Lesson 3 (zipped powerpoint file)
4. Lesson 4 (zipped powerpoint file)
5. Lesson 5 (zipped powerpoint file)
6. Pest management 1 (zipped powerpoint file)
7. Pest management 2 (zipped powerpoint file)
8. Pesticides Formulation (zipped powerpoint file)
9. Pesticides Toxicity (zipped powerpoint file)

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“Environmental Pollution” (code GC02-2005) – postgraduate

Teacher

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Dr. Sahar El Shatoury

Upgraded by

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed, Dr Sahar El Shatoury

Description

The course is meant to introduce international trends of environmental pollution, their impacts. The course also covers aspects of environmental management systems

Attendants

The course is given to pre-master students, Faculty of Science

Avg. attendants

The average number of attending students per year is 3

Started on

Academic Year 2004-2005

Updated topics

1.       Ecosystems and ecosystem dynamics

2.       Sources of pollution and pollutants classification

3.       Action of pollutants, acute and chronic toxicity

4.       Air pollutants and water pollutants

5.       Persistent organic pollutants

6.       Global warming, ozone depletion

7.       Environmental management systems, including environmental impact assessment, environmental auditing, and life cycle assessment

8.       Ecological risk assessment

9.       Principals of green chemistry, atom economy, waste minimization

10.   Bioremediation (*)

(*): The definition of bioremediation and the organisms involved are discussed. The ability of microbes to degrade or transform pollutants (organic and inorganic) are covered: especially the limitations of bioremediation e.g. bioavailability of hydrophobic organic chemicals, use of inoculants. Fundamental knowledge on microbial-based bioremediation will be applied in the form of case studies which will enhance and add to the lectures e.g. full-scale treatment of industrial effluents.

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1. Environmental Pollution (zipped PDF file)
   
   

“Pesticides’ Analysis” (code GC03-2005) – postgraduate

Teacher

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

Upgraded by

Prof. Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed

Description

The course is meant to provide a background on chemical analysis of pesticides and other organic pollutants

Attendants

The course is given to post graduate students, Faculty of Agriculture (Plant Protection branch)

Avg. attendants

The average number of attending students per year is 3

Started on

Academic Year 2004-2005

Updated topics

1.       Supercritical fluid chromatography

2.       Supercritical fluid extraction

3.       Use of modeling for chromatography simulation

4.       Alternative solvents

5.       Environmental Risks and hazards of pesticides