Course Details

Composition and Properties of Natural Waters

Academic Year 2025/26

NCB006 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Chemical equilibria, inorganic compounds and the main inorganic polutants, organic compounds in water and the main organic pollutants, gases, fundamentals of water analysis, eutrophication, self-purification, hydrochemical classification of surface, underground, mineral, and atmospheric waters.

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

summer

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Jitka Malá, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Chemistry

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Entry Knowledge

Chemical nomenclature, basic chemical rules, theory of acids and bases, compilation of chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, concentration and its expression, fundamentals of hydrochemistry and analytical chemistry.

Aims

selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.

Basic Literature

MALÁ J. Složení a vlastnosti přírodních vod. Studijní opora. Brno: CERM, 2006.  (cs)

Recommended Reading

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

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295733

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Chemical equilibria, pH.
  • 2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
  • 3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
  • 4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
  • 5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
  • 6. Organic compounds.
  • 7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
  • 8. Environment and its protection.
  • 9. Inorganic pollutants.
  • 10. Organic pollutants.
  • 11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
  • 12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
  • 13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • Introduction, safety of work in a chemical laboratory, calculations
  • Determination of neutralization capacities and nonequilibrium concentrations of carbon dioxide
  • Photometric methods, construction of calibration curve, determination of orthophosphates
  • Determination of nitrates
  • Active chlorine and its reaction with ammonia
  • Redox reactions, reduction of dichromate by sulfite
  • Biochemical Oxygen Demand
  • Sensoric properties of water
  • Presentation of seminar works
  • Presentation of seminar works
  • Measurement on site
  • Measurement on site
  • Credit