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Quiz 1 Resuelto
headquarters Medelln
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY (3007421)
Questions short survey (10%). September 2014
NAME: Laura Tatiana Snchez Gonzlez
CARD: 1128447183
1. How do you explain the relationship between analytical chemistry and the three
basic
steps of any industrial process, namely: input raw material, converting it into the
product
and sending it to the client
The role of the analytical chemist in the control of industrial processes, is related to
many things, between them we can find the recycling, it will be the responsibility of
the analytical chemist to ensure that the quality of the recycled waste is suitable for
reprocessing, there we can find part one (input raw material). The document
mentions that packaging is an extremely important part of any industrial process
and in recent years has developed into an industry in its own right. its very
important to have into account the shelf life of the product , to protect the product
from physical damage while in transit or on display and to increase customer
appeal. This is different depending of the product on sale, for example, technology
has a big shelf life, but there are things that dont. This is the case of food, which
has different lifetimes depending of the product; There we can see part two and
three (converting it into the product, send it to the client).
The analytical chemistry and the three basic steps of any industrial process, are
related in many ways, since creating the product to packing, and from packing to
delivering, its very important because is the chemistry the thing which determinate
de life of the product, mainly in the packing and the delivering.
2. Give examples of the role of analytical chemistry in the food industry (which do
not appear
in the article)
The role of analytical chemistry in the food industry is very important, because it
comes from the production, to the very birth of the food, there are some examples:
A. In the case of crops, crop yield is affected by several factors, among which is an
important availability of essential plant nutrients in the ground. When those
nutrients are not in adequate amounts, there is a need to add chemical fertilizers to
reach the sufficient nutrients and correct the adverse conditions.
One of the most important solutions is the participation of the government to make
plans to prevent and attack the problem, for example, to use an Inspector, who has
the faculty to set limits for the emission of acidic and other substances for
scheduled industries. He is an empowered person and its able to monitor the
emissions and, if necessary, he can close down a plant which does not adhere and
adapt to the limits he has set.
The document mentions that other factors indirectly affecting air quality are the
control of potential pollutants, where sulphur in gas/diesel oil is the most dangerous
thing and it causes the most harmful effect, and to control him, occasional private
legal actions are taken against companies who cause pollution of the atmosphere.
Another techniques used to monitor air quality vary greatly and range from simple
absorbers to sophisticated gas chromatographic and spectroscopic techniques;
Currently, new techniques to control air pollution are developed from organizational
prevention, to fines, and from fines to investment in less polluting gases and
processes.
Water
Some of the ways to control the quality and water pollution, starts ranging from
making and changing some laws to rationalize the water consumption and
contamination, we can find here that governmental participation is very important,
in this part there are a big number of actors like public bodies such as analysts,
local authorities, government and the scientist of the polluting organizations.
Otherwise, there are more complex procedures such as gas chromatography,
required to deal with pollutants such as pesticide residues or polycyclic aromatic
compounds. Larger water laboratories use auto analysers to deal with the
throughput of large numbers of samples.
The sampling of the water is a very important part of his analysis, mainly in carrying
out surveys of rivers, lakes and tidal estuaries. Due account must be taken of river
flows, tidal currents and still water areas in assessing where to sample and how to
interpret results.
Using this, we can detect the problem, the pollution factor and the guilty, that way
the control organisms can act and they can put end to the problem and try to save
some water.