Gainesville Campus | Science 257

Facilitated by Jerry Allison

This training workshop will be of interest to chemists, biologists, and engineers or anyone who sometimes needs to know the equilibrium pH or composition of an aqueous solution and will provide an introduction to multi-component chemical equilibrium modeling.

The model used will be a Windows version of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) model MINTEQA2.  This model was developed by the Dept. of Energy and USEPA to aid in predicting the movement of trace metals in natural aqueous systems.  However, the model itself can be used for any dilute aqueous system, natural or not.

The workshop will include a description of how MINTEQA2 works and it’s database of equilibrium reactions.  The workshop will be presented in a computer lab and will include hands-on modeling exercises including how to modify the thermodynamic database.