Course Details
Wastewater Collection and Wastewater Treatment
Academic Year 2025/26
BPA006 course is part of 1 study plan
BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th 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. Development of wastewater collection, urban drainage, basic notions, legislation.
- 2. Wastewater collection schemes and drainage systems. Innovative means of drainage.
- 3. Storm and storm data. Storm outflow from urbanized area.
- 4. Hydraulic of sewerage systems., combined sewer overflows, master plans.
- 5. Sewerage networks and connections. Storm water harvesting.
- 6. Objects on sewerage systems. Strategy of surface water protection.
- 7. Excursion of WWTP Modrice.
- 8. Development, history, dimensioning of WWTP and small WWTP. Mechanical and chemical treatment of wastewater.
- 9. Biological treatment of wastewater, activated sludge process.
- 10. Modern method of nitrogen and phosphorus removal.
- 11. Aeration and separation of activated sludge. Systems with attached biomass.
- 12. Sludge treatment at WWTP, final sludge disposal.
- 13. Anaerobic wastewater treatment.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
Sewerage:
- 1. Hydraulic calculation of flow in circular profile.
- 2. Dimenzioning of sewerage networks.
- 3. Design of line of sewerage network, hydrotechnic situation, calculation of sewage from urbanized area.
- 4. Desing of dimensions of sewerage network by rational method.
- 5. Longitudinal profile of sewer.
Wastewater treatment:
- 6. Flow at WWTP, basic scheme of WWTP.
- 7. Mechanical pretreatment – screens.
- 8. Mechanical pretreatment – sand trap.
- 9. Mechanical treatment – settling tank.
- 10. Biological treatment – activated sludge tank.
- 11. Biological treatment – final clarifier.
- 12. Sludge treatment – sludge production.
- 13. Credit.