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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Water Protection

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 616-3034/02
Abbreviation OV
Course title Water Protection
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Protection in Industry
Course coordinator Ing. Eva Szotkowská Lacková, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Water as a chemical compound. Physical and physico-chemical properties. Organoleptic and sensory properties of water.
2. Chemical composition of water. Nature and properties of pollutants. Inorganic substances in water. Organic substances in waters. Pollution indicators.
3. Types of water. Atmospheric, subsurface, surface water.
4. Primary and secondary water pollution.
5. Eutrophication.
6. Self-cleaning skills.
7. Water protection principles. Legislation in water management. Permissible degree of contaminaton.
8. Types of wastewater. Sewage, comunal and industrial wastewater. Types of industrial wastewater.
9. Wastewater treatment.
10. Physical, physico-chemical and chemical methods of wastewater treatment.
11. Biological methods. Aerobic and anaerobic biological methods. Activation.
12. Technology of the municipal wastewater treatment plant.
13. Natural ways of cleaning.

Literature

BRUTSAERT, Wilfried. Hydrology: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 605 p. ISBN-13: 978-0521824798 .

Advised literature

CHEREMISINOFF, Nicholas P. Handbook of water and wastewater treatment technologies. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, c2002. ISBN 0-75067498-9.
LEHR, Jay H. Wiley's Remediation Technologies Handbook : Major Contaminant Chemicals and Chemical Groups. Chicago: John Wiley and
Sons, 2004, 1240 s.