546-0362/03 – Waste Water Treatment (ČOV)
| Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 4 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Kyncl | Subject version guarantor | prof. Dr. Ing. Miroslav Kyncl |
| Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
| Year | 3 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2020/2021 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Learning outcomes of the course unit The aim of the course is to characterize the basic methods used in the treatment of various types of industrial and municipal water. Graduates are able to identify individual types of water and identify the degree of their pollution. They will understand the main technological processes of wastewater treatment. Understand aerobic and anaerobic water purification processes. They will gain knowledge of sludge operation
Teaching methods
Lectures
Experimental work in labs
Summary
Technical and legislative options disposal and wastewater treatment. Methods of Cleaning - biological, mechanical, anaerobic. Background for design of small wastewater treatment plants. Options elimination of N, P, heavy metals and other harmful substances. Septic, infiltration strips, artificial wetlands, biological ponds. Management of waste generated in the cleaning process.
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
Control in the form of discussion of the subject matter. Control of readiness for laboratory exercises. Continuous submission of protocols from laboratory exercises.
E-learning
Other requirements
Active participation in seminars, passing the credit test
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1. Types of waste water and their composition, sewage waste water. Organics in waters. Biodegradability of organic compounds.Water Act.
2. Technological lines of large, medium and small wastewater treatment plants. Mechanical cleaning, rough pre-cleaning.
3. Settling, settling and thickening tanks technological parameters. Settlement tanks.
4. Aerobic blended mixed-fluid culture, growth and multiplication of microorganisms, growth curve.
5. Activation process, activated sludge. Kinetics of organic matter removal from waste water by mixed culture.
6. Basic methods of cultivation of mixed culture, hydraulic characteristics of activation tanks. Main technological modifications of activation.
7. The most important technological parameters of activation. Factors affecting the cleansing effect of activation.
8. Oxygen consumption for activation, oxygen transfer to water. Oxygenation capacity, types of aerators.
9. Biological removal of nitrogen from wastewater, nitrification, denitrification.
10. Biological removal of phosphorus from waste water, chemical removal of phosphorus.
11. Theory of biofilm processes. Biological columns, rotary biofilm reactors, reactors with combined biomass cultivation.
12. Theory of anaerobic cleaning. Comparison of aerobic and anaerobic processes. anaerobic wastewater treatment
13. Anaerobic stabilization of sewage sludge, reactors, stabilization products. Sludge and its processing.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction