Course Details
Balneotechnology
Academic Year 2024/25
NPA016 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
winter
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. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools – a water surface.
2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Coagulation filtration.
4. Properties of coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration. Sorption.
5. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
6. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational and pressure part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Excursion.
10. Proposal of pipes and pumps. Pipes material. Division of the swimming pools.
11. Pool construction – construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
12. Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas.
13. Spa treatments – mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Introduction to the spa. Entering essay.
2. Example 1 – Proposal of swimming pool areas.
3. Completion of Example 1 – Graphic proposal of the swimming pool area.
4. Example 2 – Calculation of basic capacity of pool areas, capacitive, hourly and daily attendance.
5. Example 3 – Proposal of the basic elements of the recirculating pool water treatment plant.
6. Example 4 – Proposal pipes of pressure filter and homogenizing device.
7. Example 5 – Proposal of chemical economy of pool water treatment plant. Control of solving essay.
8. Example 6 – Proposal of volume of compensatory reservoir, piping, and the amount of dilution water.
9. Excursion.
10. Example 7 – Height and chemical-technology scheme of recirculating pool water treatment plant.
11. Example 8 – Calculation of pools heat losses.
12. Presentation of seminar papers.
13. Credit.