FAE3009 Geochemical Modelling with Visual MINTEQ
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
At least 5 ECTS credits in soil chemistry, water chemistry, or equivalent.
Introduction to chemical equilibrium software, thermodynamic databases, simulation of element speciation in waters (inorganic complexes, redox species), precipitation and dissolution of mineral phases at equilibrium, models for organic complexation (SHM, NICA-Donnan) and their use for simulation of metal complexation to organic matter in solution and in the solid phase, surface complexation models (DLM, CD-MUSIC) for simulation of ion binding onto (hydr)oxide surfaces (in particular ferrihydrite and goethite), definition and use of multisurface geochemical models for simulation of metal chemistry in soils.
After the course, the PhD student should know the principles of what can be done (and also what cannot be done) with geochemical software such as Visual MINTEQ. Moreover, PhD students should acquire experience in solution strategies for solving equilibrium problems in soil and water chemistry.
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