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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Physical-Chemical Processes in Water Technology

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0033/01
Abbreviation FCHP
Course title Physical-Chemical Processes in Water Technology
Credits 8
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction - characteristics of the physico-chemical processes and their application in water treatment

2. Flotation - physico-chemical principles flotation process; flotation and probability

3. Flotation agents and their mechanism of action, collecting ingredients, frother and control flotation reagents, characteristics, examples

4. Technological procedures flotation wastewater treatment - flotation dividing the air from the solution, flotation with mechanical dispersion of air, electrolytic flotation; biological flotation; chemical flotation

5. Technological modifications flotation in water treatment

6. Classification flotation to the process for wastewater treatment and water treatment, flotation machines and equipment for wastewater treatment and drinking water treatment

7. Examples of use flotation cleaning and water treatment, during treatment and processing of water supply and sewage sludge.

8. Coagulation and flocculation - physicochemical properties of dispersed slurries, suspensions electrokinetic properties, electrokinetic potential, stability of suspensions.

9. Coagulation and flocculation agents - distribution, property and mechanism of action.

10. Examples of the use of coagulation and flocculation cleaning and water treatment and the treatment and processing of water supply and sewage sludge.

11. Adsorption - type adsorption, surface charge, adsorption kinetics, adsorption isotherm characteristic of the adsorbent, adsorption onto hydrated oxides, examples of adsorbents.

12. Adsorption metals, non-metals, radionuclides and organic substances, the possibility of using adsorption for purification and water treatment.

13. Ion exchangers - synthesis and properties of polymeric sorbents, ion exchange resin usable capacity, types of ion exchangers, ion exchangers duty cycle.

14. The use of ion exchangers for water treatment

Literature

RONALD D. CROZIER Flotation-Theory,Reagents and Ore Testing. Pergamon,1992,ISBN 0-08-041864-3
BRATBY, J. Coagulation and flocculation in water and wastewater treatment. London: IWA Publishing, 2006. 407 s. ISBN 1-843391-06-6.
BACHE, D. H., GREGORY, R. Flock in Water Treatment. London: IWA Publishing, 2007. 297 s. ISBN 978-1-84339-063-3.

Advised literature

Current Czech and foreign publications on the physico-chemical processes used in water technology