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Oil Sands Process Water: When diamonds are not forever! - Context/problem-based learning

Description

This C/PBL resource is designed to help students discover what organic chemicals are present in the waste water which is produced during the processing of oil sands, and analytically assess these potentially toxic organic chemicals.

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Type of Activity

group work, working independently

Audience

TeacherStudent

Age Group

Undergraduate

Subjects

Development of scientific ideas Data & its limitations Investigative work Asking questions Analysing, concluding & explaining Limitations Equipment, apparatus & instruments Standard laboratory procedures Units & standard conditions Nomenclature, symbols & formulae Analysis: quantitative Relative masses, masses & moles Formulae Using scientific information to make decisions Chemicals as energy resources Decisions about resource use Dealing with waste Molecular shapes Covalent compounds Mixtures Physical properties of materials Mixing & dissolving Burning Reactions involving proton transfer Acid-base equilibria Acid-base titrations Hydrocarbon skeletons Trivial names Acronyms IUPAC system Drawing organic structures Characteristics of organic compounds Organic acids & bases Conformation Effects of the hydrocarbon skeleton Hydrocarbons Three heteroatom bonds Heterocyclic compounds Other biologically important molecules Obtaining materials Risks to health Materials from the lithosphere Materials from the hydrosphere Crude oil Geological chemistry Hydrosphere Petroleum geology

Credits

This resource has been provided by, or developed in partnership with, The National HE STEM Programme.

Resource Overview: Oil Sands Process Water

Handout

Duration : 8 pages

Student Guide: Oil Sands Process Water

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Tutor guides and further information

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Students are asked to investigate what properties the chemcials might have, to attempt to draw them using computer packages and to use these drawings to calculate their likely toxicities using modern chemical sciences methods and computer models. The students will also have an opportunity to interpret spectral, chromatographic and other analytical data.

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