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Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Waste Water Treatment

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0362/02
Abbreviation ČOV
Course title Waste Water Treatment
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Petra Malíková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction, legislation, wastewater, pollutants.
2. Possibilities of sewerage and wastewater treatment in the Czech Republic. Sewerage network, characteristics, types, objects on the network.
3. Quantity and quality of wastewater, substance balances, pollution indicators.
4. Classification of biological treatment processes, cultivation conditions.
5. Characteristics of industrial wastewater.
6. Nutrients in wastewater. Nitrification, denitrification.
7. Urban wastewater treatment plants, domestic wastewater treatment plants.
8. Wastewater treatment technology.
9. Anaerobic biological processes - use in wastewater treatment.
10. Decentralized possibilities of treatment of wastewater.
11. Tertiary stage of wastewater treatment.
12. Waste generated at WWTPs and options for their management.
13. Sewage sludge, quantity, treatment and use

Literature

Gray, N. F. Water Technology: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. ISBN 0-7506-6633-1
Templeton R., Buttler D.&bookboon.com (2011): An Introduction to Wastewater Treatment. ISBN 978-87- 7681-843-2

Advised literature

Cheremisinoff N. P. Handbook of Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies.
Elsevier Butterworth - Heinemann, 2002, ISBN: 0-7506-7498-9
Gray, N.F. Water Technology: An Introduction for Environmental Scientists and Engineers. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2010. ISBN 0-7506-6633-1