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Ecological monitoring

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 361-0601/02
Abbreviation EkMon
Course title Ecological monitoring
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Power Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Tomáš Výtisk, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, legislative framework of environmental protection.
2. The influence of industrial technologies on the quality of the environment
3. Technique for measuring air purity, monitoring systems of solid pollutants, and processing of measured data
4. Technique for measuring air purity, monitoring systems of gaseous pollutants, and processing of measured data
5. Operational emission monitoring, sampling systems, data acquisition and collection, including data transfer, archiving, and processing
6. Practical implementation of environmental monitoring in industrial operations
7. Principle of authorized measurements of emissions, their purpose, and importance for state administration in air protection
8. Air pollution monitoring system for air quality monitoring and methods of air pollution measurement with data collection and processing
9. Air quality assessment during technology changes in power plants.
10. Water protection in the Czech legislation.
11. Basic properties and principles of water treatment, quality monitoring
12. Monitoring of wastewater quality and treatment in power and heating plants
13. Systems and methods of wastewater quantity and pollution monitoring + Excursion

Literature

Verze předmětu se v anglickém jazyce nevyučuje

Advised literature

[1] GRUIZ, Katalin; MEGGYES, T. a FENYVESI, Éva (ed.). Site assessment and and monitoring tools. Engineering tools for environmental risk management, 3. Hoboken: CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2016]. ISBN 978-1-138-00156-5.
[2] COOPER, C. David a ALLEY, F. C. Air pollution control: a design approach. 4th ed. Long Grove: Waveland Press, c2011. ISBN 978-1-57766-678-3.
[3] TWARDOWSKA, Irena; ALLEN, Herbert E.; HÄGGBLOM, Max M. a STEFANIAK, Sebastian (ed.). Soil and water pollution monitoring, protection and remediation. NATO science series. Series IV, Earth and environmental sciences, v. 69. Dordrecht: Springer, c2006. ISBN 1-4020-4726-6.