Course Details
Natural Technologies of Water Treatment
Academic Year 2025/26
NSB019 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIV Winter Semester 2nd year
Course Guarantor
Institute
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
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
- 1. Introduction to natural ways of waste water treatment - advantages, disadvantages, possibilities of use, legislative.
- 2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, measurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
- 3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
- 4. Objects on reed bed treatment plants, design of treatment wetlands, computing and calculation, construction, sealing. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
- 5. Plants on treatment wetlands – functions, using, treatment.
- 6. Materials for filtration media.
- 7. Possibilities and limitations of VKC, operation of wastewater treatment plants.
- 8. Cleaner Economy - Investment and Operation.
- 9. Stabilization tanks: cleaning processes in the aquatic environment, building solutions, dimensions.
- 10. Efficiency of the treatment plant, carbon footprint, comparison with the best available technologies
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
- 1. Basic work program SketchUp.
- 2. Advanced tasks and processing channels as animations in SkechUp.
- 3. Design and drawing tree-chambers septic tank.
- 4. Design and drawing processing wetlands.
- 5. Excursions – House root wastewater, municipal root dry cleaning, bathing habitat.
- 6. Calculation and processing visualization ballast tanks for wetlands.
- 7. Preparation of technical reports.
- 8. Completion of domestic wastewater treatment plants project.
- 9.–10. Credit week – repair and last modification.