Course Details
Chemistry and technology of water (V)
Academic Year 2024/25
BC051 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Chemical and physical characteristics of natural and municipal waste water.
Important chemical and biological processes running in aqueous environment, rules of microorganisms´ growth and their basic life conditions, classification of microorganisms due to energy and carbon sources.
Technologies of drinking water production, coagulation, filtration, disinfection, aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron and manganese removal, adsorption, calcium and magnesium removal, use of ion-exchangers.
Mechanical and biological ways of municipal wastewater treatment, aerobic methods, activated sludge process, biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment, removal of nutrients from wastewater using biological and chemical methods.
Sewage sludge production, its treatment and stabilization, particularly by anaerobic process, and its further treatment.
Important chemical and biological processes running in aqueous environment, rules of microorganisms´ growth and their basic life conditions, classification of microorganisms due to energy and carbon sources.
Technologies of drinking water production, coagulation, filtration, disinfection, aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron and manganese removal, adsorption, calcium and magnesium removal, use of ion-exchangers.
Mechanical and biological ways of municipal wastewater treatment, aerobic methods, activated sludge process, biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment, removal of nutrients from wastewater using biological and chemical methods.
Sewage sludge production, its treatment and stabilization, particularly by anaerobic process, and its further treatment.
Credits
4 credits
Language of instruction
Czech
Semester
summer
Course Guarantor
Institute
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Entry Knowledge
Inorganic nomenclature, basic organic nomenclature, basic chemical rules, theory of acids and bases, compilation of chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, concentration and its expression, logaritms, fundamentals of differential and integral calculus.
Aims
essentials of hydrochemistry, chemical or biochemical basics of waterworks technologies, sewage treatment processes, treatment of sludge
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. essentials of hydrochemistry, basics of waterworks technologies, sewage treatment processes, and treatment of sludge.
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. essentials of hydrochemistry, basics of waterworks technologies, sewage treatment processes, and treatment of sludge.
Basic Literature
MALÁ J., MALÝ J. 2005. Chemie a technologie vody. Studijní opora. Vydal CERM. (cs)
MALÝ J., MALÁ J. Chemie a technologie vody. Brno: Vydavatelství ARDEC s.r.o., 2006, 329 s. ISBN 80-86020-50-9. (cs)
MALÝ J., MALÁ J. Chemie a technologie vody. Brno: Vydavatelství ARDEC s.r.o., 2006, 329 s. ISBN 80-86020-50-9. (cs)
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
Physical properties of water, chemical equilibria in water, pH, characteristics of water composition
Gases, carbon in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium
Aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron, manganese, and their removal from water
Coagulation
Filtration, adsorption
Water disinfection
Water hardness and its removal, ion-exchngers
Life conditions of microorganisms, fundamentals of microbiological processes
Wastewater, scheme of municipal wastewater treatment plant
Activated sludge process, aeration
Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater
Biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment
Anaerobic processes, sewage sludge treatment
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Introduction, safety of work in chemical laboratory, calculations
Strong acids and bases, neutralization
Week acids and bases, mechanical removal of aggressive carbon dioxide
Removal of aggressive carbon dioxide by limestone and dolomite, calcium-carbonate equilibrium
Removal of iron from water
Removal of manganese from water
Determination of organic compounds concentration in water
Coagulation with Fe(III) salt
Coagulation with Al(III) salt
Chemical removal of water hardness
Removal of water hardness with ion-exchangers
Oxygenation capacity, written test
Analysis of unknown water sample, credit