Course Details
Composition and Properties of Natural Waters
Academic Year 2025/26
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