Course Details

Water Quality

Academic Year 2025/26

BPA009 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

summer

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Preamble, history.
  • 2. Hydrobiology.
  • 3. Substances endangering quality of waters, offending substances.
  • 4. Municipal wastewater, sewage water, rain water, industrial water.
  • 5. Rain water, pollution, acid rain.
  • 6. Ground water, pollution, migration and self purification.
  • 7. Ground water, protection of ground water, migration and self purification.
  • 8. Surface water, self purification.
  • 9. Oxygen regime in rivers, quality of water and classification of water.
  • 10. Mathematical modeling of water quality in rivers and reservoirs.
  • 11. Emergency state in water quality. Legislation, protection of water in Czech Republic.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction. Entering essay.
  • 2. Example 1 – Calculation of oxygen consumption of contaminated water.
  • 3. Example 2 and 3 – Calculation of the equilibrium concentration of oxygen in the water. Determination of residual water pollution.
  • 4. Example 4 – Calculation of the course of biochemical oxygen demand.
  • 5. Example 5 – The course of oxygen concentration in the river below the waste water treatment plant.
  • 6. Example 6 – Effect of artificial aeration to the course of oxygen concentration in the river. Control of solving essay.
  • 7. Example 7 – Calculation of the total oxygen consumption by methods of Reed and Theriault.
  • 8. Example 8 – Calculation of the total oxygen consumption by method of equations of the second order. Control of solving essay.
  • 9. Example 9 – Determination of the critical values in the river.
  • 10. Submitting and presentation of seminar papers.
  • 11. Credit.