Course Details

Balneotechnology

Academic Year 2023/24

CP001 course is part of 1 study plan

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

Communal balneology. Visit frequency, water surface demand.
Pool water treatment - mechanical pre-treatment, clarification, sorption, filtration, pH correction, water disinfection and algae annihilation.
Pool water circulation intensity, proposal of distribution piping system and pumps.
Water streaming in pools, homogenity of disinfection means concentration.
Construction of swimming pools, construction materials, forms, surface materials, swimming pool groundwork and building of pools.
Water and heat management pool area.
Medical balneology - mineral and thermal water, water intake, transport and accumulation of medical water, peloids and their use.

Course Guarantor

Institute

Objective

The students will be acquainted with sociological principles of balneology as the main planning bases, distinguish particularities of water treatment in balneotechnical use and in the water supply one, get know specialities of hydraulic solutions in balneology, get know cohesions to other professions taking part in bath ground design, mainly heat management and structure constructions, get a mention of modern trends in bath ground design.

Knowledge

The student manages to project the pool water treatment from determining of pools surface area, visit frequency, intensity of pool water recirculation, dilution water quantity, project of compensatory reservoir, mechanical pretreatment and suitable kind of filtration up to pools chemical management.
The student manages to project forms, constructions and materials of pools and also economic aspects of projecting pools.
The student gets knowledge of mineral and thermal waters, water intake, possibilities of transportation and storage as well as knowledge of peloids and their using.

Syllabus

1. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools - a water surface.
2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Filtration.
4. Coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration.
5. Sorption. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
6. Disinfection efficacy of chlorine. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Exkursion.
10.Proposal of pipes and pumps. Shapes and dimensions of the swimming pools.
11.Pool construction - construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
12.Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas.
13.Spa treatments - mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of hydraulic, water chemistry, water treatment and water supply.

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. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools - a water surface. 2. Attendance. Quality of pool water. 3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Filtration. 4. Coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration. 5. Sorption. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination. 6. Disinfection efficacy of chlorine. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy. 7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae. 8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir. 9. Exkursion. 10.Proposal of pipes and pumps. Shapes and dimensions of the swimming pools. 11.Pool construction - construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area. 12.Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas. 13.Spa treatments - mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the spa. Entering essay. 2. Example 1 - Proposal of swimming pool areas. 3. Completion of Example 1 - Graphic proposal of the swimming pool area. 4. Example 2 - Calculation of basic capacity of pool areas, capacitive, hourly and daily attendance. 5. Example 3 - Proposal of the basic elements of the recirculating pool water treatment plant. 6. Example 4 - Proposal pipes of pressure filter and homogenizing device. 7. Example 5 - Proposal of chemical economy of pool water treatment plant. Control of solving essay. 8. Example 6 - Proposal of volume of compensatory reservoir, piping, and the amount of dilution water. 9. Exkursion. 10.Example 7 - Height and chemical-technology scheme of recirculating pool water treatment plant. 11.Example 8 - Calculation of pools heat losses. 12.Presentation of seminar papers. 13.Credit.