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Water and Soil Protection

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Course Unit Code616-3004/01
Number of ECTS Credits Allocated5 ECTS credits
Type of Course Unit *Compulsory
Level of Course Unit *Second Cycle
Year of Study *
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
PAV13Ing. Irena Pavlíková
LAC0012Ing. Eva Szotkowská Lacková, Ph.D.
Summary
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Acquired knowledge:
- Knowledge of the properties of water and their practical application, the chemical composition of water, water types.
- Knowledge of the processes of primary and secondary water pollution.
- Knowledge of physical, chemical and biological methods of wastewater treatment and their applications.
- Knowledge of the basic principles of water protection and water protection legislative framework in the Czech Republic and the EU.
- Knowledge of soil properties and their practical application, soil composition.
- Knowledge of the processes of deterioration and soil pollution and pollutants
- Knowledge of remediation methods and their practical application.
Acquired skills:
- Skill qualitative and quantitative expression of water composition.
- Skill evaluation indicators measuring the quality of surface waters and their classification.
- Skill of assessing the impact of wastewater mixing with water in a receiving water quality, application Streeter-Phelps equation.
- Skill liquid sampling and determination of basic indicators of surface water quality.
Course Contents
lectures:
1. The importance of water, water cycle on Earth. Water as a chemical compound. Physical and physicochemical properties. Sensory and sensory properties of water.
2. Chemical composition of water. Inorganic compounds in water. Organic compounds in water. The nature and properties of the contaminants.
3. Types of water. Atmospheric, subsurface, surface water. Water Resources.
4th Primary and secondary water pollution. Eutrophication. Self-cleaning capabilities.
5th Wastewater. Sewage, industrial waste water. Mixing of waste water with water in the recipient.
6. Principles of water protection. Legislation in water management. Permissible degree of contamination.
7th Wastewater. Physical methods. Physico-chemical and chemical methods.
8. Biological methods. Aerobic and anaerobic biological methods. Activation. Natural cleaning methods.
9th emergence of soils, soil-forming factors. The importance of soil. The composition of the soil, mineral and organic component.
10. Physical and chemical properties of the soil. Soil Classification. Soil profile, soil types. Soil Fund of the Czech Republic.
Damaging 11th and soil pollution. The nature and properties of the contaminants. Soil degradation.
12. Principles of protection of agricultural land and forest land. Legislation in soil conservation.
13th remediation methods. Isolation of contaminants, partial and full decontamination geological environment. Principles for the selection of remediation methods.
14. Selected remediation methods for organic contaminants, inorganic contaminants for.
Recommended or Required Reading
Required Reading:
BRUTSAERT, Wilfried. Hydrology: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 605 p. ISBN-13: 978-0521824798.
PAVLÍKOVÁ, Irena. Studijní opora: Ochrana vod a půd. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská – Technická univerzita Ostrava, Fakulta metalurgie a materiálového inženýrství, Katedra ochrany životního prostředí v průmyslu, 2008. 173 s.
RACLAVSKÁ, Helena. Znečištění zemin a metody jejich dekontaminace. Ostrava: Vysoká škola báňská - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 1998. 111 s. ISBN 80-7078-508-X.
Recommended Reading:
CHEREMISINOFF, Nicholas P. Handbook of water and wastewater treatment technologies. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002, 636 s. 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.
PITTER, Pavel. Hydrochemie. Vyd. 5. Praha: Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická, 2015. 792 s. ISBN 978-80-7080-928-0.
DOHÁNYOS, Michal; KOLLER, Jan; STRNADOVÁ, Nina. Čištění odpadních vod. Vyd. 1. Praha: Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická, 1994. 177 s. ISBN 80-7080-207-3.
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