Course Details
Chemistry and technology of water (V)
Academic Year 2023/24
BCB002 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year
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.
Technological water treatment, 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.
Technological water treatment, 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.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
essentials of hydrochemistry, chemical or biochemical basics of waterworks technologies, sewage treatment processes, treatment of sludge
Knowledge
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. essentials of hydrochemistry, basics of waterworks technologies, sewage treatment processes, and treatment of sludge.
Syllabus
1. Physical properties of water, chemical equilibria in water, pH, characteristics of water composition.
2. Gases, carbon in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
3. Aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron, manganese, and their removal from water.
4. Coagulation.
5. Filtration, adsorption.
6. Water disinfection.
7. Water hardness and its removal, ion-exchngers.
8. Life conditions of microorganisms, fundamentals of microbiological processes.
9. Wastewater, scheme of municipal wastewater treatment plant.
10. Activated sludge process, aeration.
11. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater.
12. Biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment. Anaerobic processes, sewage sludge treatment.
2. Gases, carbon in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
3. Aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron, manganese, and their removal from water.
4. Coagulation.
5. Filtration, adsorption.
6. Water disinfection.
7. Water hardness and its removal, ion-exchngers.
8. Life conditions of microorganisms, fundamentals of microbiological processes.
9. Wastewater, scheme of municipal wastewater treatment plant.
10. Activated sludge process, aeration.
11. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater.
12. Biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment. Anaerobic processes, sewage sludge treatment.
Prerequisites
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.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
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. Physical properties of water, chemical equilibria in water, pH, characteristics of water composition.
2. Gases, carbon in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
3. Aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron, manganese, and their removal from water.
4. Coagulation.
5. Filtration, adsorption.
6. Water disinfection.
7. Water hardness and its removal, ion-exchngers.
8. Life conditions of microorganisms, fundamentals of microbiological processes.
9. Wastewater, scheme of municipal wastewater treatment plant.
10. Activated sludge process, aeration.
11. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater.
12. Biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment. Anaerobic processes, sewage sludge treatment.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction, safety of work in chemical laboratory, calculations.
2. Strong acids and bases, neutralization.
3. Week acids and bases, mechanical removal of aggressive carbon dioxide.
4. Removal of aggressive carbon dioxide by limestone and dolomite, calcium-carbonate equilibrium.
5. Removal of iron from water.
6. Removal of manganese from water.
7. Determination of organic compounds concentration in water.
8. Coagulation with Fe(III) salt.
9. Chemical removal of water hardness.
10. Removal of water hardness with ion-exchangers.
11. Oxygenation capacity, written test.
12. Analysis of unknown water sample, credit.