Course detail

Municipal Water Management

FAST-SP01Acad. year: 2009/2010

Subject deals with collection and water treatment, distribution of potable water from public water supply, wastewater collection and wastewater treatment.
Designed characteristics of uniform objects, water and wastewater pipeline, project document,
principles of operating.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

5

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Municipal Water Management (VHO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage basics of water collection, technology of water treatment, wastewater collection, technology of wastewater treatment.

Prerequisites

Hydraulics and hydrology, Operation Research, Engineering networks, chemistry and water technology

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

1.Technical solution of water treatment plant technology – one or more step separation.
2.Variety in captation and treatment of groundwater and surface water. Main technological elements.
3.Disinfection of water. Water quality requirements.
4.Water demand, methods of evaluation, essential concept of water supply system.
5.Reservoirs and pumping stations, build structure of these objects.
6.Pipe materials, fittings and objects on water network.
7.Project documentation of water supply system.
8.Sewerage and urban drainage. Types of wastewater. Amount determination of individual kind of wastewater. Amount of rain wastewaters determination in relation with modern processes of drainage. Calculation techniques of basic method formulation of amount of discharged wastewater.
9.Hydraulics of sewage systems, minimal slopes and maximal velocities. Materials of sewerage systems. Hydrology of sewerage systems. Object on sewerage systems. Water-tightness of networks.
10.Classical techniques of formulation static stress of sewage profiles. Regulations. Basic legislative details in sewage system field and urban drainage.
11.Preamble to wastewater treatment subject, technological schemes of WWTP, screens, grit chamber, sedimentation tank.
12.Biological wastewater treatment, composition and characteristics of activated sludge, modification of activated process, trickling biological filter and rotated biocontactors.
13.Nitrogen and phosphorus in wastewater, removal, amount and source of sludge, thickening, sludge stabilization, dewatering and final processing of sludge.
14.Head mark.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

water collection, technology of water treatment, wastewater collection, technology of wastewater treatment

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

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Not applicable.

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's

    branch V , 3 year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer