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Course, academic year 2026/2027
  
   
Chemical Engineering Calculations in Environmental Technology - B217019
Title: Chemicko-inženýrské výpočty v environmetální technologii
Guaranteed by: Department of Water Technology and Environmental Engineering (217)
Faculty: Faculty of Environmental Technology
Actual: from 2026
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:4
E-Credits: winter s.:4
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)Schedule is not published yet, this information might be misleading.
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Bartáček Jan prof. Ing. Ph.D.
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
The course focuses on advanced unit operations and processes used in water treatment, wastewater purification, soil remediation, and flue gas treatment. Students will learn about the principles of mechanical separation, membrane technologies, adsorption and absorption processes, chemical and biological reactors, and the transport of contaminants between phases in various environmental matrices. The course also covers the hydraulics of flow systems, microbial growth kinetics in bioreactors, and the principles of mass and energy transfer in environmental applications. Emphasis is placed on understanding the governing mechanisms of individual processes and their application in the design and optimization of environmental technologies.
Last update: Bartáček Jan (25.05.2025)
Course completion requirements -

Credit based on the completion of individual assignments

Exam paper (minimum 50% points)

Oral exam

Last update: Bartáček Jan (19.05.2025)
Literature -

Recommended:

  • Tchobanoglous, G., Burton, F. and Stensel, H.D.. Metcalf&Eddy Wastewater Engineering: Treatment and Resource Recovery Edition. 5th. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2013, 2048 s. ISBN 978-0073401188.
  • Tuček, F., Chudoba, J., Koníček, Z. a kol.. Základní procesy a výpočty v technologii vody. 2. přeprac. vyd.. Praha: SNTL, 1988, 640 s. ISBN .
  • Green, Don W., and Marylee Z. Southard, eds. Perry's Chemical Engineers' Handbook. 9th ed. New Zork: McGraw-Hill Education, 2019, 2272 s. ISBN 978-0-07-147032-1.

Last update: Bartáček Jan (25.05.2025)
Teaching methods -

Lectures (1 hour per week), exercises (3 hours per week), 4 independently completed assignments

Last update: Bartáček Jan (19.05.2025)
Requirements to the exam -

To be awarded credit, the student must submit 4 continuously assigned chemical engineering tasks in the field of environmental technologies. The exam has a written part (calculations, minimum 50% points) and an oral part (discussion of independently developed tasks, one theoretical question)

Last update: Bartáček Jan (19.05.2025)
Syllabus -

1. Raw water treatment and sludge separation: Qualitative and quantitative description of settling processes (simple, disturbed) and thickening, fluidized bed

2. Membrane processes in water technology I: Control mechanisms and driving force of membrane processes

3. Membrane processes in water technology II: Types of membranes and membrane modules

4. Removal of specific pollutants I: Adsorption mechanism (physical sorption and chemisorption), adsorption isotherms, multicomponent systems

5. Removal of specific pollutants II: Adsorption columns, front advance speed, breakthrough curve, sorbent regeneration

6. Flue gas treatment: Absorption, absorption columns

7. Aeration systems: Dissolution of gases in liquid

8. Movement of contaminants in soil I: Extraction with limited miscibility phases

9. Movement of contaminants in soil II: Mass distribution between solid, liquid and gas phase

10. Hydraulics of flow systems: Hydraulic characteristics (residence time distribution), plug flow, ideal mixer

11. Reactors in environmental engineering: Types of reaction kinetics and reactor types, ideally stirred reactors, cascade of stirred reactors

12. Bioreactors in environmental engineering I: Basic types of processes, biomass quantification, biomass yield, growth kinetics of microorganisms, inhibition

13. Bioreactors in environmental engineering I: Ideally stirred bioreactors (batch, continuous, batch with gradual filling), bioreactors with gradual flow, biomass retention (chemostat, bioreactors with biomass recycling)

14. Reserve: Consultation of individual tasks

Last update: Bartáček Jan (25.05.2025)
Learning outcomes -

After completing the course, the student will be able to:

  • perform mass and energy balances of environmental processes,
  • dimension basic units of technologies for the purification and treatment of water, waste and gases,
  • select a suitable technology based on the required output and input parameters,
  • connect the theoretical foundations of chemical engineering with practical equipment design,
  • interpret the results of calculations and present a proposed solution.

Last update: Bartáček Jan (19.05.2025)
Entry requirements -

Knowledge within the scope of the subject Chemical engineering I, Environmental technology

Last update: Bartáček Jan (19.05.2025)
Registration requirements -

Knowledge within the scope of the subject Chemical engineering I, Environmental technology

Last update: Bindzar Jan (22.05.2025)
 
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