Course Details

Balneotechnology

Academic Year 2025/26

NPA016 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Renata Biela, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Municipal Water Management

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

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/295709

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools – a water surface.
  • 2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
  • 3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Coagulation filtration.
  • 4. Properties of coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration. Sorption.
  • 5. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
  • 6. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy.
  • 7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
  • 8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational and pressure part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
  • 9. Excursion.
  • 10. Proposal of pipes and pumps. Pipes material. Division of the swimming pools.
  • 11. Pool construction – construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
  • 12. Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas.
  • 13. Spa treatments – mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction to the spa. Entering essay.
  • 2. Example 1 – Proposal of swimming pool areas.
  • 3. Completion of Example 1 – Graphic proposal of the swimming pool area.
  • 4. Example 2 – Calculation of basic capacity of pool areas, capacitive, hourly and daily attendance.
  • 5. Example 3 – Proposal of the basic elements of the recirculating pool water treatment plant.
  • 6. Example 4 – Proposal pipes of pressure filter and homogenizing device.
  • 7. Example 5 – Proposal of chemical economy of pool water treatment plant. Control of solving essay.
  • 8. Example 6 – Proposal of volume of compensatory reservoir, piping, and the amount of dilution water.
  • 9. Excursion.
  • 10. Example 7 – Height and chemical-technology scheme of recirculating pool water treatment plant.
  • 11. Example 8 – Calculation of pools heat losses.
  • 12. Presentation of seminar papers.
  • 13. Credit.