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Terminated in academic year 2019/2020

Water protection and groundwater remediation

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 541-0123/03
Abbreviation OSV
Course title Water protection and groundwater remediation
Credits 4
Coordinating department Department of Geological Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Legislation. Water protection - generel, particular, special.
2. Vulnerable regions (Decree No. 108/2008 Coll.). Sensitive regions. Nitrate regulation.
3. Particular protection of waters - protection zones of water sources. Zones of hygienic protection. Conception of overall protection of water resources.
4. Water protection according to the framework regulation 2000/60/ES and the Water Act No. 254/2001 Coll. Plans of river basins.
5. Prevention of adverse effects of water: floods and droughts. Surface waters used for bathing.
6. Regulation on groundwater protection against pollution (2006/118/ES). Water protection against contamination by dangerous substances. Dangerous substances.
7. Discharge of waste waters into surface streams. Discharge of waste waters containing particularly dangerous and harmful substances. Treatment of harmful substances in water management.
8. Rules of water protection during application of plant protection agents in agriculture.
9. Criteria and values of allowable pollution of surface and waste waters. Determination of emissions limits.
10. Remediation technology for ground water and filtration water. Chemical principles - leaching and releasing of absorbed pollutants. Mambrane processes.
11. Physical methods: Thermal processes - heating by steam or hot water, resistence heating, electrothermic dynamical stripping, air sparging.
12. Biological processes: Natural attenuation, bioremediation, biological reactive barriers. Biologically degradable pollutants.
13. Remediation ex-situ. Artifical wetlands, adsorption and biosorption, precipitation, coagulation, flocculation, membrane processes.
14. Pollutants in waters. Forms of occurence. Methods of determination.
15. Reduction technologies of remediation utilizing nanoparticles.

Literature

Clark R.M., Hakim S., Ostfeld A. (2011): Handbook of water and wastewater sytems protection. Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614-0189-6 , 1-483.
Šráček O., Černík M., Vencelides Z. (2013): Applications of geochemical and reactive transport modelling in hydrogeology. Palacky University, Olomouc, 1-120. ISBN: 978-80-244-3781-1 
Šráček O., Zeman J. (2004): Introduction to environmnetal hydrogeochemistry. Masaryk University, Brno, 1-102. ISBN: 80-210-3586-2 .

Advised literature

Kharisov B.I., Kharissova O.V., Riska Dias H.V. (2014): Nanomaterials for Environmental Protection. WILEY, 1-592. ISBN: 978-1-118-845554-7
Sham Chi Ho., Gullick R.W., Long S.C. (2011): Operation guide to WWA standards 6300 – Source Water Protection. American Water Works Association. ISBN: 978-1-58321-784-9