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Waste water treatment

Type of study Doctoral
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0902/02
Abbreviation ČOV
Course title Waste water treatment
Credits 10
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Kyncl

Subject syllabus

- Wastewater, the character of water pollutants, organic substances and their determination, sewage water composition and quantities, micropollutants. Water legislation.
- Technological lines in large-size, medium-size and small WWTPs. Centralized and decentralized purification, industrial wastewater, mechanical purification, rough cleaning, clarification.
- Basics of biological purification processes, the growth and multiplication of microorganisms, growth curve, kinetic principles of microorganism selection, kinetics of medium removal.
- Principle of wastewater aerobic purification, activated sludge, organic compound metabolism, organic compound removal.
- Basic methods of cultivation of activated sludge, activation process, oxygen demand, water oxygen transfer, methods and aeration.
- Major technological modifications of activation system, most important technology parameters of activation, factors affecting the efficiency of activation.
- Biological removal of nitrogen, nitrification, denitrification, activation system of nitrogen removal, bioaugmentation, Anammox system.
- Biological removal of phosphorus, activation systems of phosphorus removal, joint biological removal of nitrogen and phosphorus, chemical removal of phosphorus.
- Anaerobic purification processes, comparison of aerobic and anaerobic processes, principle of anaerobic decomposition, anaerobic purification of wastewater, types of reactors.
- Sewage sludge processing, anaerobic stabilisation, reactors, sludge gas, sludge water, further sludge hygienisation, sludge drying and incineration. Phosphorus recovery from sludge.

Literature

RIFFAT R. Fundamentals of wastewater treatment and engineering. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2013. ISBN 978-0-415-66958-0 .
Van NEUWENHUIJZEN, A. Handbook on Particle Separation Processes, London IWA Publishing 2009, ISBN 9781843392774 .
VON SPERLING, M. Activated Sludge and Aerobic Biofilm Reactors. Water Intelligence Online [online]. 2007, 6, 9781780402123-9781780402123 [cit. 2020-04-28]. DOI: 10.2166/9781780402123. ISSN 1476-1777 .
Water supply, IWA Publishing, 2000. ISSN 1606-9749 .

Advised literature

RICE, E.W., ed. Standard methods for the examination of water and wastewater. 22nd ed. Washington, DC: American Public Health Association, c2012. ISBN 978-0-87553-013-0 .
ORHON D., Babuna F. Industrial Wastewater Treatment by Activated Sludge. London: IWA Publishing 2009, ISBN 9781843391449 .
Practical wastewater treatment. Hoboken: Wiley, 2006. ISBN 0-470-06792-6 .
CHEREMISINOFF, N.P. Handbook of water and wastewater treatment technologies. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2002. Pollution engineering. ISBN 0-75067498-9.