Course Details

Hydrochemistry

Academic Year 2025/26

DCB009 course is part of 4 study plans

DKA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DKC-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPA-V Summer Semester 1st year

DPC-V Summer Semester 1st year

Physico-chemical properties of water, physical chemistry of surfaces, basics of thermodynamics and chemical equilibria in water.
General composition of water, carbon dioxide and its ionic forms, metals and semi-metals, halogens, nitrogen compounds, sulfur compounds, phosphorus compounds, gases, organic substances and their group determinations, C10-C40 hydrocarbons, polyaromatic hydrocarbons, phenols, halogenderivatives of hydrocarbons, pesticides, surfactants.
Transport and transformation of substances in the environment.

Credits

8 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Entry Knowledge

Fundamentals of general, inorganic and organic chemistry.

Aims

enlarging of knowledge on hydrochemistry and water analysis
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. enlarging of knowledge on hydrochemistry and water analysis.

Basic Literature

PITTER, P. Hydrochemie. Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze. Praha, 2015. (cs)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Physico-chemical properties of water.
  • 2. Physical chemistry of surfaces, chemical equilibria.
  • 3. General composition of water.
  • 4. Carbon dioxide and its ionic forms.
  • 5. Metals and metalloids.
  • 6. Halogens, compounds of nitrogen.
  • 7. Compounds of sulphur, compounds of phosphorus.
  • 8. Gases, organic compounds and their group determinations.
  • 9. C10-C40 hydrocarbons, polyaromatic hydrocarbons.
  • 10. Phenols, halogenderivatives of hydrocarbons, humic compounds.
  • 11. Pesticides, sufactants.
  • 12. Hydrochemical quality of natural waters.
  • 13. Hydrochemical quality of drinking and selected waste waters.