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Terminated in academic year 2016/2017

Water Treatment and Water Purification II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0470/01
Abbreviation UČV II
Course title Water Treatment and Water Purification II
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová

Subject syllabus

I. Introduction
1. The importance of waste water treatment.
2. Water properties. Water sampling.
3. Kind pollutants.Expression pollution.

II. Water industry
1. Water supply facilities in terms of required quality and quantity. Water
holding facilities, closed water circulation.
2. The rate of harmful waste water on surface and underground water resources.
3. Balancing the flow and quality of wastewater.

III. Methods of sewage treatment

IV. Mechanical methods of sewage treatment
1. Solid phase separation processes, filtration and sedimentation.
2. Movement of particles in the material environment, velocity of the particles, the resistance environment.
3. Mechanical equipment used for wastewater treatment. Screens, sieves,
gravel and sand traps, grease traps and oil settling tanks.

V. Physico-chemical and chemical methods of sewage treatment
1. Flotation, flotofloculation.
2. Precipitation, neutralization, oxidation, reduction, sorption.
3. Special physico-chemical and chemical methods of wastewater treatment.

VI. Biological methods of sewage treatment
1. Natural biological processes of sewage treatment, self-cleaning water.
2. Activation, activation options.
3. Biofiltration.
4. The combination of biological and other processes of sewage treatment.

VII.Technological cleaning procedures selected types of waste water
1. Municipal wastewater.
2. Waste water fuel industry, energy. Mine water.
3. Waste water metallurgy and engineering.
4. Waste water chemical industry.
5. Wastewater food industry.
6. Wastewater scale farming.
7. Waste water from processing of wood.

Literature

Gerardi, M. H. Wastewater Bacteria. Paperback, John Wiley. 272 pp. ISBN 0-471-20691-1 .

Advised literature

Turovskiy, I. S.; Mathai, P. K. Wastewater Sludge Processing. John Wiley, 354 pp. 2006. ISBN: 0-471-70054-1 .