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