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.