Course Details

Chemistry and technology of water (V)

Academic Year 2024/25

BCB002 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / VS Summer Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 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. Physical properties of water, chemical equilibria in water, pH, characteristics of water composition. 2. Gases, carbon in water, calcium-carbonate equilibrium. 3. Aggressive carbon dioxide removal, iron, manganese, and their removal from water. 4. Coagulation. 5. Filtration, adsorption. 6. Water disinfection. 7. Water hardness and its removal, ion-exchngers. 8. Life conditions of microorganisms, fundamentals of microbiological processes. 9. Wastewater, scheme of municipal wastewater treatment plant. 10. Activated sludge process, aeration. 11. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater. 12. Biofilm reactors, natural ways of wastewater treatment. Anaerobic processes, sewage sludge treatment.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Introduction, safety of work in chemical laboratory, calculations. 2. Strong acids and bases, neutralization. 3. Week acids and bases, mechanical removal of aggressive carbon dioxide. 4. Removal of aggressive carbon dioxide by limestone and dolomite, calcium-carbonate equilibrium. 5. Removal of iron from water. 6. Removal of manganese from water. 7. Determination of organic compounds concentration in water. 8. Coagulation with Fe(III) salt. 9. Chemical removal of water hardness. 10. Removal of water hardness with ion-exchangers. 11. Oxygenation capacity, written test. 12. Analysis of unknown water sample, credit.