Introducing the center:
1- History:
The Water and Wastewater Chemistry Laboratory started to work in 1993 to offer an associate degree program in environmental health and in the following years, the laboratory also admitted students in non-continuous and continuous bachelor, master, and PhD programs in environmental health.
2- Visions:
To train necessary skills to would-be environmental health engineers, including the following:
- Assisting in improving health and solving environmental problems as teamwork;
- Identification of physical, chemical and biological operations and processes in order to improve the environment;
- Recognition and application of pollutants measurement devices and equipment;
- Recognition and selection of efficient technologies for pollution control;
- Designing water and wastewater treatment systems;
- Participating in the designing and operation of water transmission and distribution systems and wastewater collection;
- Recognition of the methods of evaluation, monitoring and management of environmental health and environment; and
- Gaining knowledge about laws, standards and pollution control programs.
3- Perspective:
We intend to offer applied courses to the graduates so that they will be able to design, manage and implement environmental health plans, and to offer one of the most prominent educational programs across Iran by improving our program qualitatively and quantitatively.
4- Mission:
- Providing a suitable platform to conduct experiments and training related to environmental chemistry; and
- Promoting research in environmental chemistry.
5- Equipment:
Research priorities:
1) New methods of water treatment and pollutants removal;
2) Monitoring of risk factors and pathogens in water;
3) New methods of wastewater treatment and removal of hazardous pollutants;
4) New methods of industrial wastewater treatment;
5) Environmental factors and biomarkers and their relationship with health
6) Zoning environmental factors and their pathogen load;
7) Health measures during the outbreak of environmental pollution;
8) Conventional levels of agricultural pesticides in soil and water resources;
9) The authenticity of food and beverage production and storage;
10) Preparing equipment, identifying and sampling chemical and biological agents;
11) Causes of outbreaks of food and waterborne diseases;
12) The causes of the gradual increase in the amount of nitrates in drinking water in urban and rural areas;;
13) Possible ways to solve problems of high nitrate in drinking water;
14) The levels of heavy metals and nitrates in water resources of the province;
15) The peroxide levels of oils used in the preparation of zoolbia and bamieh in the province;
16) The levels of heavy metals and nitrates in water resources of the province;
17) The levels of heavy metals in the samples of salt consumed by households living in the province;
18) Salt amounts in packaged food products;
19) Trans fats amounts in cooking oils consumed by households; and
20) Sugar content in the formulation of flour, sugar and beverage products;
Contact information:
Address: Laboratory and Workshop Complex of Environmental Health Engineering Department, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences
Tel: +98-38-33345652
Extension: 206
Fax: +98-38-33334678
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