Course Details

Industrial Wastewater Treatment

Academic Year 2025/26

NPB021 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

prof. Ing. Petr Hlavínek, CSc., MBA

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/295729

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Preamble to wastewater treatment from food industry.
  • 2. Technologies of production, source of wastewater, recommended treatment technologies, alternative schemes of industrial wastewater treatment plants.
  • 3. Physical processes used for industrial wastewater treatment, chemical processes used for industrial wastewater treatment.
  • 4. Biological processes used for industrial wastewater treatment.
  • 5. Excursion – brewery water treatment.
  • 6. Excursion – vinary water treatment.
  • 7.–8. Wastewater treatment from sugar processing, drinkables production, processing of fruit and vegetables.
  • 9.–10. Wastewater treatment from processing of meat and poultry, from dairy industry, processing and final disposal of sludge.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

  • 1. Introduction. Entering essay.
  • 2. Example 1 – Calculation of amount and quality of industial wastewater
  • 3. Example 2 – Technological scheme of WWTP from bewerage industry
  • 4. Example 3 – Technological scheme of WWTP from vegetable and fruit procesing industry
  • 5. Example 4 – Technological scheme of WWTP from meat processing industry
  • 6. Example 4 – Technological scheme of WWTP from dairy industry
  • 7.–9. Submitting and presentation of seminar papers.
  • 10. Credit.