Module Specifications.
Current Academic Year 2024 - 2025
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Date posted: September 2024
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Description To provide students with experience in the safe operation of analytical instrumentation. To promote 'hands-on' development of analytical methods applicable to real-world problems encountered both in industry and academic research. To encourage an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving in a modern analytical laboratory. To apply theoretical knowledge in a practical laboratory setting. To develop record-keeping and presentation skills. To develop inter-personal, team-work and communication skills. To introduced students to modern instrumental techniques. To introduce students to the concepts of sampling and sample handling. To introduce students to preparation, storage and handling of standards and reagents. to introduce students to concepts of instrument calibration and method validation. To analyse the air and water samples taken during the field trip. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. operate state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation and develop analytical methods for specific problems using this instrumentation. The students will gain hands-on experience with specific instrumentation for spectroscopy, chromatography, atomic absorption spectrophotometry, IR/NMR. 2. appreciate the importance of health and safety in a laboratory setting. 3. understand the protocols necessary for the care of analytical instrumentation. 4. competently write detailed scientific reports based on the analytical methods they use in the laboratory. 5. apply laboratory quality control techniques to the analytical methods that they develop. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Laboratory PracticalsSee Laboratory Manual (to be distributed at commencement of module)Introductory Laboratory sessionintroduction to lab format, fundamental wet chemistry techniques, injection techniquesUsing IR and NMR and Karl Fischer titration to identify 2 unknown substancesone solid and one liquidspectroscopydetermination of iron-phenanthroline mole ratio by UV-visible spectroscopy, determination of quinine in tonic water by fluorescenceAtomic Absorption spectroscopyanalysis of cations in tap water, ions in water samples taken during field trip, standard addition calibrationHigh performance liquid chromatographyoptimisation of separation conditions, comparison of isocratic and gradient systemsIon Chromatographydetermination of inorganic ions in fertiliser and tapwater and water samples taken during field tripGas chromatographyidentification of BTEX in air samples taken during field trip by gas chromatography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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