Course Details

Natural Technologies of Water Treatment

Academic Year 2024/25

NSB019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

Introduction to the problem, distribution of natural methods of purification, history of using natural methods of purification
Cleaning processes in soil, water and wetlands, importance of vegetation, composition of polluted and waste water
Exploration work, rainwater management
Mechanical pre-treatment of waste water
Horizontal filter design, operation issues
Vertical filter tip, pulse dosing systems
Design of a stabilization tank, floating wetland islands
Combination of natural and artificial ways of cleaning, use in practice, modernization.
Operation of natural sewage treatment plants

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Michal Kriška-Dunajský, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Landscape Water Management

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Knowledge of hydraulics - pipe flow, groundwater hydraulics, hydropedology - especially grain-size analysis, density and bulk density filter materials, waste water treatment - mechanical treatment and sludge management, calculation and maximum daily flow, water chemistry and technology, basic concepts such as nitrification and denitrification, BOD, PE

Aims

Evaluation of possibilities of natural ways of water treatment use, advantages and disadvantages.
Specific of mechanical pre-treatment solution
Knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment
Ability to use the principle of designing the most used types
Environmental impact assessment, overview of legislative.
Student gains overview of possibilities of natural ways of water treatment use, knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment.

Basic Literature

ČSN 75 6402: Čistírny odpadních vod do 500 ekvivalentních obyvatel, 2017. Praha: Úřad pro technickou normalizaci, metrologii a státní zkušebnictví.   (cs)
DWA, 2017. Grundsätze für Bemessung, Bau und Betrieb von Kläranlagen mit bepflanzten und unbepflanzten Filtern zur Reinigung häuslichen und kommunalen Abwassers: Arbeitsblatt DWA-A 262. Hennef: Deutsche Vereinigung für Wasserwirtschaft, Abwasser und Abfall. DWA-Regelwerk, A 262. ISBN 38-872-1547-8.

(de)
ÖNORM B 2505- Kläranlagen – Intermittierend beschickte Bodenfilter („Pflanzenkläranlagen“)

(de)
Dotro, Gabriela & Langergraber, Günter & Molle, Pascal & Nivala, Jaime & Puigagut, Jaume & Stein, Otto. (2017). Biological Wastewater Treatment Series, Volume 7: Treatment Wetlands.

(en)
sciencedirect.com - databáze vědeckých článků, vyhledání klíčových slov "treatment wetland", "vertical filter", "natural treatment", apod. (en)
Kořenové čistírny odpadních vod, METODICKÁ PŘÍRUČKA PRO POVOLOVÁNÍ, NÁVRH, REALIZACI A PROVOZ, Michal Kriška a Miroslava Němcová, 2015, elektronická verze /pdf dostupné na https://uvhk.fce.vutbr.cz (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/282087

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to natural ways of waste water treatment - advantages, disadvantages, possibilities of use, legislative.
  • 2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, measurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
  • 3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
  • 4. Objects on reed bed treatment plants, design of treatment wetlands, computing and calculation, construction, sealing. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
  • 5. Plants on treatment wetlands – functions, using, treatment.
  • 6. Materials for filtration media.
  • 7. Possibilities and limitations of VKC, operation of wastewater treatment plants.
  • 8. Cleaner Economy - Investment and Operation.
  • 9. Stabilization tanks: cleaning processes in the aquatic environment, building solutions, dimensions.
  • 10. Efficiency of the treatment plant, carbon footprint, comparison with the best available technologies

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic work program SketchUp.
  • 2. Advanced tasks and processing channels as animations in SkechUp.
  • 3. Design and drawing tree-chambers septic tank.
  • 4. Design and drawing processing wetlands.
  • 5. Excursions – House root wastewater, municipal root dry cleaning, bathing habitat.
  • 6. Calculation and processing visualization ballast tanks for wetlands.
  • 7. Preparation of technical reports.
  • 8. Completion of domestic wastewater treatment plants project.
  • 9.–10. Credit week – repair and last modification.