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Waste Water Treatment - AM217026

Title:	Waste Water Treatment
Guaranteed by:	Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering (217)
Faculty:	Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	winter
Points:	winter s.:5
E-Credits:	winter s.:5
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:3/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	60 / 60 (unknown)
Min. number of students:	unlimited
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English
Teaching methods:	full-time
Level:
Note:	course can be enrolled in outside the study plan enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	Wanner Jiří prof. Ing. DrSc. Bindzar Jan Ing. Ph.D. Bartáček Jan prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Classification:	Chemistry > Environmental Chemistry

Examination dates

This subject contains the following additional online materials

E-learning course

Annotation

The aim of the course is to build knowledge on the principles of wastewater treatment technologies. Wastewater characterization methods and the main wastewater treatment technologies based on chemical, physicochemical and biological processes are explained.

Last update: Kubová Petra (12.04.2018)

Course completion requirements

Written examination: 10 questions, 10 points each

Improvement of the grades B-E is allowed by repeating the exam with a prior arrangement with the teachers. The most recent exam result is always valid.

Last update: Bindzar Jan (14.09.2023)

Literature

Obligatory:

Chen, G.-H., Ekama, G. A., Loosdrecht, M. C. M. van, Brđanović, Damir. Biological wastewater treatment, principles, modelling and design. : , , s. ISBN 978-1-78906-035-5.

Carlos M. Lopez-Vazquez; Brdjanovic Damir; Eveline I.P. Volcke; Mark C.M. van Loosdrecht; Di Wu; Guanghao Chen (Eds.). Biological Wastewater Treatment: Examples and Exercises. : IWA Publishing, 2023, s. ISBN 9781789062304.

Recommended:

Tchobanoglous, George, Stensel, H. David, Tsuchihashi, Ryujiro, Burton, Franklin L., Abu-Orf, Mohammad, Bowden, Gregory, Pfrang, William. Wastewater engineering, treatment and resource recovery. : , , s. ISBN 978-0-07-340118-8.

Last update: Bindzar Jan (29.08.2024)

Syllabus

1. Introduction and EU legislation on wastewater

2. Wastewater characterization; sewerage systems

3. Mechanical wastewater treatment

4. Biological wastewater treatments: biochemical and microbiological principles and biofilm processes: principles and fixed-film reactors

5. Activated sludge process: formation of activated sludge, main technological parameters, types of activated sludge process

6. Activated sludge process: diffuse air aeration, mechanical aeration, mixing of activated sludge tanks, nutrient removal systems

7. Separation of activated sludge, effluent polishing, wastewater reuse

8. Physico-chemical methods I: sedimentation, oil-water separation, hydrocyclone, filtration, flotation, magnetic separation

9. Physico-chemical methods II: precipitation, coagulation, neutralization, ion exchange, adsorption, stripping

10. Physico-chemical methods III: membrane separation processes, chemical oxidation and reduction, thermal treatment

11. Fundamentals of anaerobic processes

12. Quantitative description of anaerobic processes, mass and energy balances, main design parameters

13. Reactors for anaerobic wastewater treatment

14. Post-treatment of anaerobic effluents

Last update: Bindzar Jan (14.09.2023)

Learning resources

https://e-learning.vscht.cz/

Last update: Bindzar Jan (14.09.2023)

Teaching methods
	Activity	Credits	Hours
	Konzultace s vyučujícími	0.5	14
	Účast na přednáškách	1.5	42
	Příprava na přednášky, semináře, laboratoře, exkurzi nebo praxi	0.5	14
	Příprava na zkoušku a její absolvování	2	56
	Účast na seminářích	0.5	14
		5 / 5	140 / 140