Course Details
Natural Technologies of Water Treatment
Academic Year 2023/24
CS052 course is part of 1 study plan
N-P-C-SI (N) / V Winter Semester 2nd year
Introduction, history and various ways of natural water treatment.
Purification processes in soil, aquatic and wetland environment, importance of plants, research, polluted and waste waters.
Rain water disposal.
Pretreatment of waste waters.
Soils filters, reed bed treatment plants with horizontal and vertical flow.
Stabilization reservoirs, floating islands.
Combination of natural and artificial ways of treatment, modernization
Purification processes in soil, aquatic and wetland environment, importance of plants, research, polluted and waste waters.
Rain water disposal.
Pretreatment of waste waters.
Soils filters, reed bed treatment plants with horizontal and vertical flow.
Stabilization reservoirs, floating islands.
Combination of natural and artificial ways of treatment, modernization
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
Evaluation of possibilities of natural ways of water treatment use, advantages and disadvantages.
Specific of mechanical pre-treatment solution
Knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment
Ability to use the principle of designing the most used types
Environmental impact assessment, overview of legislative.
Specific of mechanical pre-treatment solution
Knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment
Ability to use the principle of designing the most used types
Environmental impact assessment, overview of legislative.
Knowledge
Student gains overview of possibilities of natural ways of water treatment use, knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment.
Syllabus
1. Introduction to natural ways of waste water treatment - advantages, disadvantages, possibilities of use, legislative.
2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, measurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
4. Objects on reed bed treatment plants, design of treatment wetlands, computing and calculation, construction, sealing. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
5. Plants on treatment wetlands – functions, using, treatment
6. Materials for filtration media
7. Possibilities and limitation of treatment wetlands
8. The proposal of house lake (treatment lake, stabilization lake, etc.) – building and maintenance
9. Stabilization reservoirs: purification processes in water environment, design solution, basic construction.
2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, measurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
4. Objects on reed bed treatment plants, design of treatment wetlands, computing and calculation, construction, sealing. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
5. Plants on treatment wetlands – functions, using, treatment
6. Materials for filtration media
7. Possibilities and limitation of treatment wetlands
8. The proposal of house lake (treatment lake, stabilization lake, etc.) – building and maintenance
9. Stabilization reservoirs: purification processes in water environment, design solution, basic construction.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of hydraulics - pipe flow, groundwater hydraulics, hydropedology - especially grain-size analysis, density and bulk density filter materials, waste water treatment - mechanical treatment and sludge management, calculation and maximum daily flow, water chemistry and technology, basic concepts such as nitrification and denitrification, BOD, PE
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Introduction to natural ways of waste water treatment - advantages, disadvantages, possibilities of use, legislative.
2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, measurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
4. Objects on reed bed treatment plants, design of treatment wetlands, computing and calculation, construction, sealing. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
5. Plants on treatment wetlands – functions, using, treatment
6. Materials for filtration media
7. Possibilities and limitation of treatment wetlands
8. The proposal of house lake (treatment lake, stabilization lake, etc.) – building and maintenance
9. Stabilization reservoirs: purification processes in water environment, design solution, basic construction.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Basic work program SketchUp
2. Advanced tasks and processing channels as animations in SkechUp
3. Design and drawing tree-chambers septic tank
4. Design and drawing processing wetlands
5. Excursions - House root wastewater, municipal root dry cleaning, bathing habitat
6. Calculation and processing visualization ballast tanks for wetlands
7. Preparation of technical reports
8. Completion of domestic wastewater treatment plants project
9. Credit week - repair and last modification