546-0148/01 – Water Treatment Technology (TUV)

Gurantor departmentDepartment of Environmental EngineeringCredits4
Subject guarantorprof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav KynclSubject version guarantorprof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Kyncl
Study levelundergraduate or graduateRequirementCompulsory
Year2Semesterwinter
Study languageCzech
Year of introduction2020/2021Year of cancellation
Intended for the facultiesHGFIntended for study typesFollow-up Master
Instruction secured by
LoginNameTuitorTeacher giving lectures
HAJ21 Ing. Jitka Chromíková, Ph.D.
HAL0134 Ing. Jan Halfar
HEV01 prof. Ing. Silvie Heviánková, Ph.D.
KYN43 prof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Kyncl
Extent of instruction for forms of study
Form of studyWay of compl.Extent
Full-time Credit and Examination 2+2
Part-time Credit and Examination 8+8

Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences

The aim is to acquaint students with the basic technological processes of water treatment for drinking and industrial use. Understand the individual technological principles and basic technological parameters.

Teaching methods

Lectures
Experimental work in labs

Summary

The course provides general information about water treatment. Attention is paid to the treatment of various types of water and all technological processes used in the processing and production of drinking water and special water for various industrial applications (heating plants, boiler rooms, feed water).

Compulsory literature:

DEGRÉMONT, SA. Water Treatment Handbook, 7th. ed. France 2007. ISBN 978-1-84585-005-KRIŠ, Josef, et al, Water Treatment, Montanex Ostrava 2013, ISBN 978-80-7225-389-0.

Recommended literature:

McBRIDE, Graham B. Using Statistical Methods for Water Quality Management: Issues, Problems and Solutions. John Wiley. 2005. ISBN 978-0-471-47016-3.

Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester

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E-learning

Other requirements

Study of professional journals

Prerequisities

Subject has no prerequisities.

Co-requisities

Subject has no co-requisities.

Subject syllabus:

1. Physical, chemical and biological properties of natural waters. Pollutants in water, quality requirements for drinking and service water, water sources. 2. Mechanical, chemical and biological processes of water treatment. Technological possibilities of individual water treatment processes, application examples. 3. Sedimentation, particle drop in liquid, settling and thickening of suspensions. Rectangular and circular settling tanks, calculation of technological parameters of settling tanks, law of surface loading. 4. Coagulation in water technology, colloidal destabilization, Stern bilayer model, zeta potential. Types of coagulants, perikinetic and orthokinetic coagulation. Water clarification, types of clarifiers. 5. Filtration of water, mechanism of particle trapping by a layer of granular material. Pressure conditions in the filter, types of filter cartridges, calculation of filtration and washing cycles. 6. Types of filters basic technological parameters, calculation of filtration rate, filter regeneration, possibilities of use in water technology. 7. Technological procedures of groundwater treatment, carbon dioxide and its forms in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium. Physical and chemical processes of water deacidification, technological equipment. 8. Removal of iron and manganese from groundwater, forms of occurrence in water, process theory. Technological processes of alkalization and oxidation, biological processes. Catalytic manganese removal processes. 9. Ion exchange, process theory, cation exchange and anion exchange properties. Technological procedures of ion exchange and regeneration of ion exchangers. Water softening by chemical processes. 10. Water treatment by membrane processes, microfiltration, ultrafiltration, nanofiltration, reverse osmosis, electrodialysis. Technological equipment and procedures. Examples of use. 11. Hygienic security of drinking water. Use of ultraviolet radiation, disinfection with chlorine and its compounds, ozone disinfection. Technological equipment for chemical dosing. 12. Adsorption from aqueous solutions, adsorbents and adsorbates. Physical adsorption and chemisorption, adsorption isotherms. Use in water technology. 13. Special technological processes of water treatment. Dechlorination, radon removal, biological nitrate removal, water fluoridation. Corrosive and incremental properties of water, magnetic water treatment.

Conditions for subject completion

Full-time form (validity from: 2020/2021 Winter semester)
Task nameType of taskMax. number of points
(act. for subtasks)
Min. number of pointsMax. počet pokusů
Credit and Examination Credit and Examination 100 (100) 51
        Credit Credit 33  17
        Examination Examination 67  18 3
Mandatory attendence participation: Compulsory participation in exercises and elaboration of protocols from exercises.

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Conditions for subject completion and attendance at the exercises within ISP: Participation in the exercise is mandatory, including the processing of exercise protocols. The exam consists of two questions from the course syllabus.

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