Course Details

Advanced Sewerage and WWTP

Academic Year 2024/25

NPB023 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

The course introduces students to selected issues of drainage and waste water from urbanized areas. The course related to broader issues solved within the course “Sewerage and Wastewater Treatment”. The course is established on basic general subjects, such as “Hydraulics” and “Hydrology”.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Petr Hlavínek, CSc., MBA

Institute

Institute of Municipal Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Hydrology, Hydroinformatics, Hydraulics, Sewerage, WWTP.

Aims

The primary purpose of this course is to review the current of art in urban drainage, with emphasis on drainage impacts on the receiving waters, means of impact mitigation and implementation of the national standards and management programs. The subject brings groudings about Planning, Design, Operation, Rehabilitation of Sewer systems and information about hydroinformatics tools.
Student will manage aim of course: planning, design, operating and rehabilitation of sewer networks and WTP

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/282058

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Design of vacuum sewerage.
  • 3. Design of pressure sewerage. The transport of waste water – pumping equipment in sewer networks.
  • 4. Energy performance of sewer networks.
  • 5. Survey and evaluation of the technical conditions of sewer networks.
  • 6.–7. Modern technology use in waste water treatment plant to 50 EP.
  • 8.–9. Modern technology use in city waste water treatment.
  • 10. Membrane processes.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction.
  • 2. Design of vacuum sewerage.
  • 3. Design of pumping station.
  • 4. Design of vacuum station/pressure sewer.
  • 5.–6. Design of domestic WWTP.
  • 7.–8. Design of the selected parts of WWTP.
  • 9. Design of the membrane.
  • 10. Credit.