NSCPHD1039 Advanced analytical chemistry – Sampling and sample preparation
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Advanced course in how to take and prepare samples in analytical
chemistry. This course is a natural extension of any basic course
in analytical chemistry. Theory and practice of all sampling steps
from the initial sample in the field to the final sample injected
into the analytical instrument. Theory, computer simulations and
simple experiments.
The course starts with a throughout treatment of Pierre Gy’s Theory
of Sampling (TOS), which tells how to obtain a representative
sample without systematic errors and with an acceptable
uncertainty. Based on TOS the practice and tools for taking the
samples and reduce the sample mass in a representative way is
treated. All common matrices, soil, water and air, are
addressed.
The sample preparation part includes active and passive sampling for gases (adsorbents, denuders, traps, filtering etc.), liquid, solid and headspace sampling for liquids (LLE, SPE, SPME SBSE SLE etc.) and liquid and headspace sampling from solids (shake, MW, US, PLE, SFE, etc.). The sample preparation part focus on organic analytes only.
This course enables the student to plan and perform sampling and sample preparation, including sampling strategy, determination of number of samples and sample size, sample selection, sampling techniques and tools, and methods for sample preparation for organic analytes, extraction, filtering, purification and pre-concentration including advanced methods like SPME, SBSE, PLE, SLE for common instrumental analytical methods.
Notes and selected articles will be used extensively.
- Category
- Hours
- Exam
- 20
- Lectures
- 48
- Practical exercises
- 8
- Preparation
- 110
- Theory exercises
- 24
- Total
- 210
To sign up for the course, please send an e-mail to Karina Knudsmark Jessing. If PhD-student, please remember to add the course to your PhD-plan. For students not enrolled at University of Copenhagen, please apply as a credit student.
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- Written assignmentOral examinationWritten assignment (Sampling) and oral examination (Sample Pretreatment). Grade passed/not passed for PhD-students. Internal censorship.
- Exam registration requirements
NB. 2.5 ECTS Sampling only or 5 ECTS Sample Preparation only
- Marking scale
- passed/not passed
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NSCPHD1039
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Ph.D.
- Placement
- Block 3
- Schedule
- B2Tuesdays 8.30 - 12 and Thursdays 8.30 - 17
- Price
Participants from Danish Universities are free of charge. External students are charged 6000 dkr. for the full course and 2000 dkr for Sampling only or 4000 dkr for Sample Preparation only. All PhD students (including Danish Universities) are charged for instrument-time, laboratory expenses and expenses related to excursions amounting to a total of 4000 dkr for the full course (7.5 ECTS), or 1000 dkr for Sampling alone (2.5 ECTS) or 3000 dkr for Sample Preparation alone (5 ECTS).
- Study board
- Natural Sciences PhD Committee
Contracting department
- Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences
Course responsibles
- Karina Knudsmark Sjøholm (7-726d7b7b71766f4878746d7636737d366c73)
Lecturers
Several guest lectures, but none confirmed yet