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Sterilisation methods: a wide range of physical and chemical
methods of sterilisation and disinfection will be taught. The
methods will range from heat and radiation methods which are
suitable for laboratories to chemicals and chlorine which are
suitable for extensive waterways.
Practical work will be conducted in conjunction with the
above topics.
~ ~ 3 4 9 Microbiology
10 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
Subject description
Basic microbiology: general anatomy of the bacterial cell.
Structure and function of bacterial components. Bacterial
nutrition and growth. Types and composition of media for
growth. Special growth techniques - anaerobic, enrichment.
Counting techniques as a method for measuring bacterial
growth. These will also include simple field techniques such as
millipore filtration and MPN counts.
Sterilisation methods: a wide range of physical and chemical
methods of sterilisation and disinfection will be taught. The
methods will range from heat and radiation methods which are
suitable for laboratories to chemicals and chlorine which are
suitable for extensive waterways.
Practical work will be conducted in conjunction with the above
topics.
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Applied Chemistry
10 credit points
No, of hours per week: four hours
Subject description
Industrial energy sources: coal, oil, natural gas, shale and
nuclear. Production and use of synthesis gas. Coal conversion
processes.
Inorganic reactions: a study of the major classes of inorganic
reactions and associated equilibria. Application of such
reactions to the separation and identification of common metal
cations and anions in multi-component solutions and
cornmercral products. This component of the course is done as
practical work.
Kinetics of complex reactions: Consecutive, parallel and
reversible first-order reactions; non-equal initial concentrations;
enzyme kinetics; free radical and chain reactions; the internal
combustion engine and air pollution; batch and flow reactions.
lntroduction to the chemical industry and chemical processing:
fluid flow; heat transfer; separation processes; process
analysers; process control.
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Practical Chemistry
15 credit points
No. of hours per week: seven hours
Subiect description
~uantititive analysis: manual titration, colorimetry, atomic
absorption, electrodeposition, GC, HPLC and a project in
quantitative atomic absorption.
Physical chemistry experiments in thermodynamics, phase
equilibria and spectroscopy.
~ ~ 3 7 0 Chemistry
15 credit points
No. of hours per week: six hours
Subject description
Thermodynamics: formation; reaction; variations with
temperature; chemical potentials; available work.
Phase equilibria: one and two component systems, with
emphasis on practical applications.
Organic chemistry: aromaticity.
Chromatography: general principles; column chromatography.
GC, HPLC.
Analytical chemistry: sampling.
Spectroscopy: basic instrumentation; atomic, UV/visible and IR
spectra.
~ ~ 3 7 2 Biochemistry
12.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: six hours
Subject description
lntroduction to biomolecules: monosaccharides, disaccharides,
polysaccharides, amino acids, polypeptides, structure of
proteins, lipids, nucleotides, enzymes, coenzymes, nucleic
acids.
Enzyme kinetics: simple enzyme mechanisms, Michaelis-
Menten kinetics, inhibition.
Catabolic pathways: catabolic pathways for carbohydrate, lipid
and protein.
Laboratory exercises will include quantitative
spectrophotometric analysis, colorigenic assays, biochemical
extractions and analyses, model building of peptides, enzyme
kinetics, computer simulated enzyme catalysis, isoenzyme
analysis, and enzyme assays. The program supports the theory
content by illustrating biochemical structures, enzyme kinetics
and metabolic pathways.
As well as practice in basic biochemistry laboratory techniques
and procedures, skills emphasised by the practical program
include protocol interpretation and design, and calculations
and interpretation of data from quantitative analyses.
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Practical Chemistry
7.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Subject description
Analytical techniques: volumetric analysis, analysis using an
atomic absorption spectrometer, UVIvisible spectrometer, gas
chromatograph and high performance liquid chromatograph.
Physical experiments: thermodynamics and phase equilibria.
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Computers in Chemistry
7.5 credit points
No. of hours per week: three hours
Subject description
Computer jargon, external and internal computer structure,
operations of hardware and software, binary and hexadecimal
notation and ASCII codes.
Disc and file operation using DOS, sub-directories and DOS
Shell and Windows.