| NAME OF THE COURSE |
Mineral Raw Materials from Seawater |
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Code |
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Course teacher |
Prof Vanja Martinac |
Credits (ECTS) |
3.0 |
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Associate teachers |
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Type of instruction (number of hours) |
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Status of the course |
Elective |
Percentage of application of e-learning |
0 % |
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| COURSE DESCRIPTION |
Course objectives |
Through the program of lectures the students master the knowledge of basic properties of seawater and methods of exploiting mineral raw materials from seawater. |
Course enrolment requirements and entry competences required for the course |
Enrolled in or passed the course Exercises in Mineral Raw Materials from Seawater |
Learning outcomes expected at the level of the course (4 to 10 learning outcomes) |
After passing the exam, students are expected to:
- explain and discern physical and chemical properties of seaware
- discern macro and micro constituents in seawater
- describe separation of certain salts at isothermal evaporation of seawater
- describe technological processes of extracting mineral raw materials (magnesium, sodium chloride, bromine and fresh water) from seawater |
Course content broken down in detail by weekly class schedule (syllabus) |
1. week: Seawater – a source of mineral raw materials.
2. week: The basic properties of seawater.
3. week: Physical and chemical characteristics of the seawater.
4. week: Composition of seawater. Classification of components dissolved in seawater.
5. week: Concentration and chemical forms of elements in seawater.
6. week: Constant ratios of major components of seawater.
7. week: Minor components of seawater.
8. week: Isothermal evaporation of seawater and separation of certain salts.
9. week: The effect of climactic and other factors on the evaporation process.
10. week: Evaporation of concentrated sea bittern.
11. week: Possibilities of technological exploitation of seawater.
12. week: Extraction of common salt.
13. week: Extraction of bromine from seawater.
14. week: Recovery of magnesium and magnesium compounds from seawater.
15. week: Extraction of fresh water from the seawater – desalination processes. |
Format of instruction: |
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Student responsibilities |
Attendance to lectures for 80% of the total number of hours. |
Screening student work (name the proportion of ECTS credits for eachactivity so that the total number of ECTS credits is equal to the ECTS value of the course): |
Class attendance |
1.0 |
Research |
0.0 |
Practical training |
0.0 |
Experimental work |
0.0 |
Report |
0.0 |
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Essay |
0.0 |
Seminar essay |
0.0 |
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Tests |
0.0 |
Oral exam |
2.0 |
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Written exam |
0.0 |
Project |
0.0 |
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Grading and evaluating student work in class and at the final exam |
Attendance to lectures is registered (not included in the rating). An oral exam is held in the examination periods. The oral exam is mandatory for all students.
Ratings: 60%-70% - satisfactory, 71%-80% - good, 81%-90% - very good,
91%-100% - excellent. |
Required literature (available in the library and via other media) |
Title |
Number of copies in the library |
Availability via other media |
F. J. Millero, Chemical Oceanography, 3th Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2005. |
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V. Martinac, Magnezijev oksid iz morske vode, on line (2010-12-13), Sveučilišni priručnik, Kemijsko-tehnološki fakultet, Split, 2010. |
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on line |
Desalination, Trends and Technologies, Ed by M. Schorr (on line 2011-02-28), InTechOpen, 2011. |
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on line |
M. J. Kennish, Practical Handbook of Marine Science, 3rd Edition, CRC Press, Boca Raton, 2001. |
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Optional literature (at the time of submission of study programme proposal) |
M. E. Q. Pilson, Introduction to the Chemistry of the Sea, 2st edition, Prentice Hall, 2013.
K. Stowe, Exploring Ocean Science, Wiley, New York, 1996.
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Quality assurance methods that ensure the acquisition of exit competences |
Quality assurance will be performed at three levels:
(1) University Level; (2) Faculty Level by Quality Control Committee; (3) Lecturer’s Level. |
Other (as the proposer wishes to add) |
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