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Water protection and groundwater remediation

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Course Unit Code541-0123/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Choice-compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *Second Year
Semester when the Course Unit is deliveredWinter Semester
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-face
Language of InstructionCzech
Prerequisites and Co-Requisites Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester
Name of Lecturer(s)Personal IDName
RAC20prof. Ing. Helena Raclavská, CSc.
SCH0013doc. Mgr. Monika Ličbinská, Ph.D.
Summary
The course is focused on problems of water from the point of view of legislation as well as on ensuring the optimal supply and required quality of both surface and ground waters according to the corresponding standards. Students will learn the assessment of pollution criteria for surface and ground waters together with methodology for calculation of emission limits. The technological part of the course is devoted to problems of remediation and purification of ground and filtration waters using physical, chemical and biological methods.
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Understanding of relationships in the water circulation with focus on their protection by means of technological measures. The synthesis of knowledge in the field of technological solutions and behaviour of pollutants in aquatic systems.
Course Contents
1. Legislation. Water protection - generel, particular, special.
2. Vulnerable regions (Decree No. 108/2008 Coll.). Sensitive regions. Nitrate regulation.
3. Particular protection of waters - protection zones of water sources. Zones of hygienic protection. Conception of overall protection of water resources.
4. Water protection according to the framework regulation 2000/60/ES and the Water Act No. 254/2001 Coll. Plans of river basins.
5. Prevention of adverse effects of water: floods and droughts. Surface waters used for bathing.
6. Regulation on groundwater protection against pollution (2006/118/ES). Water protection against contamination by dangerous substances. Dangerous substances.
7. Discharge of waste waters into surface streams. Discharge of waste waters containing particularly dangerous and harmful substances. Treatment of harmful substances in water management.
8. Rules of water protection during application of plant protection agents in agriculture.
9. Criteria and values of allowable pollution of surface and waste waters. Determination of emissions limits.
10. Remediation technology for ground water and filtration water. Chemical principles - leaching and releasing of absorbed pollutants. Mambrane processes.
11. Physical methods: Thermal processes - heating by steam or hot water, resistence heating, electrothermic dynamical stripping, air sparging.
12. Biological processes: Natural attenuation, bioremediation, biological reactive barriers. Biologically degradable pollutants.
13. Remediation ex-situ. Artifical wetlands, adsorption and biosorption, precipitation, coagulation, flocculation, membrane processes.
14. Pollutants in waters. Forms of occurence. Methods of determination.
15. Reduction technologies of remediation utilizing nanoparticles.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
Clark R.M., Hakim S., Ostfeld A. (2011): Handbook of water and wastewater sytems protection. Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4614-0189-6, 1-483.
Šráček O., Černík M., Vencelides Z. (2013): Applications of geochemical and reactive transport modelling in hydrogeology. Palacky University, Olomouc, 1-120. ISBN: 978-80-244-3781-1
Šráček O., Zeman J. (2004): Introduction to environmnetal hydrogeochemistry. Masaryk University, Brno, 1-102. ISBN: 80-210-3586-2.

ČERNÍK M.: Chemicky podporované in situ sananční technologie. VŠCH Praha, 2010, 1-336. ISBN: 978-80-7080-767-8.
PITTER P.: Hydrochemie. VSCHT Praha, 2009, 1-597. ISBN 978-80-7080-701-9
PRŮCHOVÁ I., HANÁK J.: Voda v právních vztazích. MU Brno, Právnická fakulta. Spisy právnické fakulty, řada teoretická č.481, 2014, 1-238. ISBN: 978-80-210-7155-1
Recommended Reading:
Kharisov B.I., Kharissova O.V., Riska Dias H.V. (2014): Nanomaterials for Environmental Protection. WILEY, 1-592. ISBN: 978-1-118-845554-7
Sham Chi Ho., Gullick R.W., Long S.C. (2011): Operation guide to WWA standards 6300 – Source Water Protection. American Water Works Association. ISBN: 978-1-58321-784-9
HARTMAN P., BEDNÁŘOVÁ D., MIKL R. (): Management akvakultury. Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích. Vodňany. 2012, 1-202.
STRNAD Z. a kol.: Vodní právo. Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovicích. Vodňany. 2015, 1-226.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, Tutorials
Assesment methods and criteria
Task TitleTask TypeMaximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks)
Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing
Credit and ExaminationCredit and Examination100 (100)51
        CreditCredit33 17
        ExaminationExamination67 18