Course Details
Composition and Properties of Natural Waters
Academic Year 2023/24
NCB006 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year
Chemical equilibria, inorganic compounds and the main inorganic polutants, organic compounds in water and the main organic pollutants, gases, fundamentals of water analysis, eutrophication, self-purification, hydrochemical classification of surface, underground, mineral, and atmospheric waters.
Credits
5 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Chemical nomenclature, basic chemical rules, theory of acids and bases, compilation of chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, concentration and its expression, fundamentals of hydrochemistry and analytical chemistry.
Aims
selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.
Basic Literature
MALÁ J. Složení a vlastnosti přírodních vod. Studijní opora. Brno: CERM, 2006. (cs)
Recommended Reading
PITTER, P. Hydrochemie. Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze. Praha, 2015. (cs)
Syllabus
1. Chemical equilibria, pH.
2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
6. Organic compounds.
7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
8. Environment and its protection.
9. Inorganic pollutants.
10. Organic pollutants.
11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
6. Organic compounds.
7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
8. Environment and its protection.
9. Inorganic pollutants.
10. Organic pollutants.
11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
Prerequisites
Chemical nomenclature, basic chemical rules, theory of acids and bases, compilation of chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, concentration and its expression, fundamentals of hydrochemistry and analytical chemistry.
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. Chemical equilibria, pH.
2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
6. Organic compounds.
7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
8. Environment and its protection.
9. Inorganic pollutants.
10. Organic pollutants.
11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
6. Organic compounds.
7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
8. Environment and its protection.
9. Inorganic pollutants.
10. Organic pollutants.
11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Introduction, safety of work in a chemical laboratory, calculations
Determination of neutralization capacities and nonequilibrium concentrations of carbon dioxide
Photometric methods, construction of calibration curve, determination of orthophosphates
Determination of nitrates
Active chlorine and its reaction with ammonia
Redox reactions, reduction of dichromate by sulfite
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Sensoric properties of water
Presentation of seminar works
Presentation of seminar works
Measurement on site
Measurement on site
Credit
Determination of neutralization capacities and nonequilibrium concentrations of carbon dioxide
Photometric methods, construction of calibration curve, determination of orthophosphates
Determination of nitrates
Active chlorine and its reaction with ammonia
Redox reactions, reduction of dichromate by sulfite
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Sensoric properties of water
Presentation of seminar works
Presentation of seminar works
Measurement on site
Measurement on site
Credit