Course Details

Composition and Properties of Natural Waters

Academic Year 2023/24

CC052 course is part of 1 study plan

N-P-C-SI (N) / V Summer Semester 1st year

Chemical equilibria, inorganic compounds and the main inorganic polutants, organic compounds in water and main organic pollutants, gases, fundamentals of water analysis, eutrophication, self-purification, hydrochemical classification of surface, underground, mineral, and atmospheric water.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters

Knowledge

Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.

Syllabus

Chemical equilibria, pH
Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese
Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens
Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases
Nitrogen, phosphorus
Organic compounds
Transformation of compounds in the environment
Environment and its protection
Inorganic pollutants
Organic pollutants
Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds
Natural waters: atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters
Natural waters: 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.

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 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

Chemical equilibria, pH Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases Nitrogen, phosphorus Organic compounds Transformation of compounds in the environment Environment and its protection Inorganic pollutants Organic pollutants Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds Natural waters: atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters Natural waters: 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