Dr. Martin T. Auer MTU Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering Units of Concentration (the lingua franca of the field)
Why concentration? driving force for - mass transport chemical reactions biotic effects nutrients toxicity
Metric prefixes … terragram metric ton (megagram) Tg MT 10 3 kilogramkg 10 0 gramg milligrammg microgramµg nannogramng picogrampg femtogramfg
And if that’s not enough … yottagramYg yoctogramyg
Mass concentration units: mass per mass. Onondaga Lake Syracuse, New York
Mass concentration units: mass per mass.
Mass concentration units: mass per volume.
Bioaccumulation: Mass in Fish vs. Mass in Water Onondaga Lake, Syracuse, New York
Mass concentration units: mole per volume. Units of moles (molarity, M) per liter are often used to report concentrations of materials dissolved in water. Gram molecular weight is the mass of a substance, in grams, that numerically equals its molecular weight. The mass of one mole of a substance is its gram molecular weight, e.g. for carbon, C, one mole weighs 12g.
Mass concentration units: mole per volume.
Units of moles (molarity, M) per liter are often used to report concentrations of materials dissolved in water. Gram molecular weight is the mass of a substance, in grams, that numerically equals its molecular weight. The mass of one mole of a substance is its gram molecular weight, e.g. for carbon, C, one mole weighs 12g.
Mass concentration units: mass per volume.
Mass concentration units: mole per volume.
Other types of units: concentration as a common constituent.
Other types of units: particle concentrations.
Other types of units: representation by effect.
Organic Matter. … what’s in here?
Organic Matter. Carbohydrates (sugar and the polymers starch and cellulose) Proteins (polymers of amino acids) Fats ( Fats (formed from glycerol and fatty acids)
Organic Matter. Photosynthesis Respiration also …mineralization oxidation stabilization
Representation by Effect - Organic Matter. Respiration When organic matter is used as a substrate for respiration, … when it is oxidized … when it is mineralized … when it is stabilized it exerts a “biochemical oxygen demand” or BOD.
BOD - Representation by Effect. … impacts on lakes and rivers?