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Remediation technologies

Type of study Follow-up MasterBachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0809/02
Abbreviation ST
Course title Remediation technologies
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Radmila Kučerová

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction. Economic evaluation of remediation technologies.
2. Technology for treating unsaturated zones and solid materials. In situ technology - biological (bioventing, bioremediation, phytoremediation and rhizoremediation).
3. Physical and chemical in situ procedures (chemical oxidation, venting, solidification and stabilization, heat treatment methods, covering, sealing and encapsulation, vitrification).
4. Ex situ - biological technology (treatment of soil and other solid materials after decontamination, composting).
5. Biostabilization and bioimobilization. Landfarming. Slurry phase system.
6. Chemical and physical ex situ methods (chemical extraction, chemical oxidation/reduction, dehalogenation, physical-mechanical separation, soil washing and solid materials, solidification and ex situ stabilization, combustion, thermal desorption).
7. Technology of groundwater and leachate purification. In situ - biological technology (supported bioremediation, biosparging, bioslurping, biotransformation, bioreduction, biological reactive barriers, atteunation).
8. Chemical and physical methods (air sparging, in situ chemical oxidation, heat treatment methods, vertical barriers, deep injection).
9. Ex situ - biological technologies (bioreactors, artificial wetlands, root cleaners).
10. Chemical and physical methods (air stripping, adsorption and absorption, chemical oxidation, precipitation, coagulation, flocculation, flotation).
11. Technology of soil air and air cleaning - biological (biofiltration).
12. Chemical and physical processes (washing, membrane separation, oxidation, adsorption, combustion).
13. Nanotechnology for remediation of ecological burdens. Principles of nanotechnology in the environmental field. Technology of contaminated groundwater remediation in situ. Examples of the use of nanotechnology in the environment.

Literature

YONG, S. O., J. RINKLEBE, D. HOU, D. C. W. TSANG and F. M. G. TACK. Soil and Groundwater Remediation Technologies. A Practical Guide. CRC Press, 2023. 350 p. ISBN 9781032570822 .
ZDARTA, J., T. JESIONOWSKI and J. RINKLEBE. Green Technologies for Pollutants Remediation and Recovery from Water and Soil. CRC Press, 2025. 300 p. ISBN 9781032881218 .
SAXENA, S., S. SHUKLA and P. K. S. MURAL. Emerging Materials and Technologies in Water Remediation and Sensing. Springer : Proceedings of ICWT 2022, Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering (LNCE, volume 439).
JOO, Sung Hee a I. Francis CHENG. Nanotechnology for environmental remediation. New York: Springer, c2006. Modern inorganic chemistry (Springer). ISBN 0-387-28825-2.
SINGH, S. N., R. D. TRIPATHI. Environmental bioremediation technologies. Berlin : Springer, 2007. 518 s. ISBN 978-3-540-34790-3.

Advised literature

Water treatment handbook, France : Degremont, 2007, vol.1., 785 pp. ISBN 978-2-74030-0970-0.
DÍAZ, E. Microbial biodegradation. Norfolk : Caister Academic Press, 2008. 402 s. ISBN 978-1-904455-17-2.
LEHR, J. H. Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook : Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups. NJ : John Wiley and Sons, 2004. 1271 s. ISBN 9780471455998 .
SINGH, A., P. O. WARD. Biodegradation and bioremediation. Berlin : Springer, 2004. 309 s. ISBN 3-540-21101-2.
KIRK, G. The biogeochemistry of submerged soils. Chichester : Wiley, 2004. 291 s. ISBN 978-0-470-86301-5 .