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.