Course Details

Selected Chapters from Water Supply

Academic Year 2025/26

NPB019 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Summer Semester 1st year

Course Guarantor

Ing. Jan Ručka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Municipal Water Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

4 credits

Semester

summer

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/295727

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Drinking water sources and their protection.
  • 2. New methods of coagulation, sludge blanket clarifiers inovation.
  • 3. New filtration materials, new types of filters, automation of water treatment plants.
  • 4. Container water treatment plants, membrane technologies.
  • 5. Water losses, indicators of water losses, using of Smart Water Meters.
  • 6. Technical equipment for leakage.
  • 7. Technical audit of water supply systems.
  • 8. Planning fo reconstruction and rehabilitation of water supply systems.
  • 9. Water quality in distribution systems.
  • 10. Risk analysis of public water supply systems.
  • 11. Reliability of water distribution networks.
  • 11. Water supply performance indicators, water losses.
  • 12. Control valves - excursion to ATJ company.
  • 13. Perfomance indicator in water supply sector, technical news, congferences and projects in the sector.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Entering the seminar work S1 – description a characteristics of real water supply system.
  • 2. Working and consultation in seminar work S1.
  • 3. Working and consultation in seminar work S1.
  • 4. Presentation of seminar work S1.
  • 5. Presentation of seminar work S1.
  • 6. Presentation of seminar work S1.
  • 7. Participation in conference VODA Zlín.
  • 8. Entering the seminar work S2 – translation and presentation of the content of foreign scientific article.
  • 9. Working and consultation in seminar work S2.
  • 10. Working and consultation in seminar work S2.
  • 11. Presentation of seminar work S2.
  • 12. Presentation of seminar work S2.
  • 13. Presentation of seminar work S2, credit.