Course Details
Composition and Properties of Natural Waters
Academic Year 2024/25
NCB006 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Chemical equilibria, pH.
2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
6. Organic compounds.
7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
8. Environment and its protection.
9. Inorganic pollutants.
10. Organic pollutants.
11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Introduction, safety of work in a chemical laboratory, calculations
Determination of neutralization capacities and nonequilibrium concentrations of carbon dioxide
Photometric methods, construction of calibration curve, determination of orthophosphates
Determination of nitrates
Active chlorine and its reaction with ammonia
Redox reactions, reduction of dichromate by sulfite
Biochemical Oxygen Demand
Sensoric properties of water
Presentation of seminar works
Presentation of seminar works
Measurement on site
Measurement on site
Credit