Course detail

Selected Chapters from Municipal Water Management

FAST-CP01Acad. year: 2013/2014

Communal balneology. Visit frequency, water surface demand.
Pool water treatment - mechanical pre-treatment, clarification, sorption, filtration, pH correction, water disinfection and algae annihilation.
Pool water circulation intensity, proposal of distribution piping system and pumps.
Water streaming in pools, homogenity of disinfection means concentration.
Heat management pool area, water management pool area.
Construction of swimming pools, construction materials, forms, surface materials, swimming pool groundwork and building of pools.
Medical balneology - mineral and thermal water, water intake, transport and accumulation of medical water, peloids and their use.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. Renata Biela, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Municipal Water Management (VHO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The student after completing the course manages to project the pool water treatment from determining of pools surface area, visit frequency, intensity of pool water recirculation, dilution water quantity, project of compensatory reservoir, mechanical pretreatment and suitable kind of filtration up to pools chemical management. The student manages to project forms, constructions and materials of pools. The student also propose economic aspects of projecting pools. The student will gain an overview of mineral and thermal waters, water intake, possibilities of transportation and storage as well as peloids and their using.

Prerequisites

Hydraulic, chemistry and water technology, water supply, concrete constructions.

Co-requisites

Not required.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.
The course is divided into lectures and exercises. Lectures are presented in PowerPoint. During the exercises students counted examples and also work the essay, that it is presented in the end of the semester. In one week of teaching are lectures and exercises replaced excursion to selected swimming area.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

For the successful completion the exercises is necessary attendance to exercise with only two excused absences, submission of all calculated examples, submission and presentation of the essay. Examples and essay are scored and requirement for credit is to reach at least 60% of the total marks.
The student is admitted to the exam only with credit from this course. The exam consists of a written and oral examination. For successful completion of the course, the student must meet both parts of the

Course curriculum

1. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools - a water surface.
2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Filtration.
4. Coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration.
5. Sorption. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
6. By-products of chlorination.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Pressure part of swimming-pool circuit. Design of pipes and pumps. Shapes and dimensions of the swimming pools.
10. Pool construction - construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
11. Heat management pool area.
12. Spa treatments - mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.
13. Exkursion

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The students will be acquainted with sociological principles of balneology as the main planning bases, distinguish particularities of water treatment in balneotechnical use and in the water supply one, get know specialities of hydraulic solutions in balneology, get know cohesions to other professions taking part in bath ground design, mainly heat management and structure constructions, get a mention of modern trends in bath ground design.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

The study recommended websites of the manufacturers and suppliers of technology for the treatment of pool water, pipe materials, fittings and valves.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Beránek, J.: Balneotechnika. Studijní opora pro studijní programy s kombinovanou formou studia. VUT FAST Brno, 2007. (CS)
Biela, R., Beránek, J.: Úprava vody a balneotechnika. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2563-6. (CS)

Recommended reading

Lhotáková, Z.: Bazény. Vydavatelství Era, 2005. ISBN 80-7366-015-6. (CS)
Philip H. Perkins: Swimming Pools: Design and Construction. E and FN Spon, 2000. ISBN 0-419-23590-6. (EN)
Pivoda, B., Svoboda, F.: Balneotechnika. VUT Brno, 1983. (CS)
Sklenář: Balneotechnika I. ČVUT Praha, 1987. (CS)
Šťastný, B.: Stavba a provoz bazénů. ABF, a.s. - Nakladatelství ARCH, 2003. ISBN 80-86165-56-6. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme N-K-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-C-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

  • Programme N-P-E-SI Master's

    branch V , 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Renata Biela, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Field definitions, history, physiological effects of bathing and swimming. Design parameters of swimming pools - a water surface.
2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Filtration.
4. Coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration.
5. Sorption. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
6. Disinfection efficacy of chlorine. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Exkursion.
10.Proposal of pipes and pumps. Shapes and dimensions of the swimming pools.
11.Pool construction - construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
12.Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas.
13.Spa treatments - mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.

Exercise

26 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Renata Biela, Ph.D.

Syllabus

1. Introduction to the spa. Entering essay.
2. Example 1 - Proposal of swimming pool areas.
3. Completion of Example 1 - Graphic proposal of the swimming pool area.
4. Example 2 - Calculation of basic capacity of pool areas, capacitive, hourly and daily attendance.
5. Example 3 - Proposal of the basic elements of the recirculating pool water treatment plant.
6. Example 4 - Proposal pipes of pressure filter and homogenizing device.
7. Example 5 - Proposal of chemical economy of pool water treatment plant. Control of solving essay.
8. Example 6 - Proposal of volume of compensatory reservoir, piping, and the amount of dilution water.
9. Exkursion.
10.Example 7 - Height and chemical-technology scheme of recirculating pool water treatment plant. Control of solving essay.
11.Example 8 - Calculation of pools heat losses.
12.Presentation of seminar papers.
13.Credit.