Course Details

Academic Year 2026/27

BPA017 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-ENI Winter Semester 3rd year

Credits

5 credits

Language of instruction

Czech

Semester

winter

Course Guarantor

Institute

Forms and criteria of assessment

course-unit credit and examination

Basic Literature

MALÝ J., HLAVÍNEK, P. 1996. Čištění průmyslových odpadních vod. ISBN 80-86020-05-3, Brno: NOEL 2000 s.r.o., 1996 (cs)
HLAVÍNEK P., KUKCHARCHYK T., MARSALEK J., MAHRIKOVA I.: Integrated Urban Water Resources Management, SPRINGER, 2006, ISBN-10 1-4020-4684-7, 323 stran (en)
RADA, E.C. (Ed.). (2017). Thermochemical Waste Treatment: Combustion, Gasification, and Other Methodologies (1st ed.). Apple Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/b19983 (en)
YONG Sik Ok, Biochar from Biomass and Waste: Fundamentals and Applications. Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc. ISBN: 9780128117293. https://doi.org/10.1016/C2016-0-01974-5 (en)

Recommended Reading

LEHMANN, J., & JOSEPH, S. (Eds.). (2015). Biochar for Environmental Management: Science, Technology and Implementation (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203762264 (en)

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  1. Introduction to wastewater treatment and reuse
  2. Technical field trip
  3. From wastewater treatment to resource recovery
  4. Wastewater treatment
  5. Technologies for advanced wastewater treatment and reuse
  6. Cellulose recovery from wastewater
  7. Wastewater as an energy source
  8. Energy recovery at wastewater treatment plants
  9. Sewer mining
  10. Nutrients in sewage sludge and their utilization
  11. Sewage sludge drying
  12. Thermal processing methods for sewage sludge
  13. Material transformation of sewage sludge into a product.

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

5 weeks, 3 hours/week, elective

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory