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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Water Management II

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0736/02
Abbreviation HV II
Course title Water Management II
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
1. Water used in industry, general water quality requirements. Specific quality requirements for certain process water
2. Pre-treatment of water before demineralization in general
3. Acidic and alkaline clarification - process characteristic, comparison of acidic and alkaline clarification. Characteristics of individual phases of the clarification process, types of clarifiers.
4. Ionex demineralization - process principle, types of ion exchangers used, demineralization stage, ion exchange regeneration. Processes in the ion exchange bed during demineralization, mixbed
5. Softening and decarbonisation
6. Membrane processes in water treatment, water pretreatment for reverse osmosis, reverse osmosis
7. Organic substances, problems of their occurrence and possibility of removal from water in the preparation of demineralized water
8. Waste water in industrial sectors in general, conditions for discharge of POV into public sewerage. Pollutants in industrial waste water, possibilities of industrial waste water treatment in general
9. Mine water, characteristic pollution, possibilities of mine water cleaning
10. Surface treatment of metals - characteristics of produced waste water, possibilities of cleaning
11 Oil refineries and petrochemical industry, characteristic wastewater pollution, cleaning methods, oil substance separators
12. Chemical industry - inorganic and organic production, waste water from inorganic and organic technologies, methods of cleaning
13. Agricultural production - livestock production, characteristic wastewater pollution and the procedure for their cleaning. Crop production, characteristic wastewater pollution and their cleaning process
14. Food industry - sugar industry, brewing and malting industry, distilling industry.
15. Food industry - dairy industry, starch industry, slaughterhouse and meat industry, canning factories, characteristic wastewater pollution and cleaning

Literature

1. Tchobanoglous, G., Burton, F.L., and Stensel, H.D. (2003). Wastewater Engineering (Treatment Disposal Reuse) / Metcalf & Eddy, Inc. (4th ed.). McGraw-Hill Book Company. ISBN 0-07-041878-0 .
2. Water treatment Handbook, Seventh edition, Degremont: France 2007, ISBN 978-1-84585-005-0 
3. Twort, A. Ratnayaka, D. Brand J.: Water supply, London IWA Publishing 2000, ISBN 0-340-72018-2 

Advised literature

Current publication about industrial wastewater and water management.