Course detail
Wastewater treatment technology
FCH-MCO_TCOAcad. year: 2022/2023
Wastewater, summary of wastewater treatment methods, treatment lines, physico-chemical and chemical processes, biological processes, aerobic and anaerobic biological processes, nitrogen and phosphorus removal, systems with attached biomass, sludge from waste water treatment, stabilization, disposal and possibilities of sludge utilization.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
1st Students will be capable of application concepts in the field of municipal and idustrial waste water treatment and sludge disposal;
2nd Students will gain knowledge of requirements on quantity and quality of sluiced waste water and on techniques of their taking out;
3rd Students gain knowledge which is essential for the understanding of all the basic processes that take place in municipal and industrial waste water treatment;
4th Students gain knowledge on technologies and treatment lines for municipal waste water and sludge treatment and possibilities of their intensification.
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Course curriculum
2. Wastewater sewerage and sewerage networks.
3. Municipal wastewater treatment lines.
4. Physical and physical-chemical processes of wastewater treatment (mechanical pretreatment, bar racks and screens, grit chambers, primary sedimentation).
5. Hydraulic regime in continuously flow systems.
6. Biological wastewater treatment processes. Classification of processes (ORP, biomass form, reactor configuration).
7. Aerobic wastewater treatment processes. Activated sludge and activated sludge process. Kinetics of microorganisms growth and substrate removal. Kinetic selection of microorganisms.
8. Principal operational parameters. Influence of principal process variables and parameters on treatment efficiency.
9. Biomass and activated sludge mass balance and production. Activated sludge sedimentation characteristics, causes and prevention of sludge bulking. Oxygen requirement and supply.
10. Technological configurations of activated sludge processes. Stabilisation of sludge.
11. Anaerobic biological processes, mechanisms and influencing factors. Granular biomass. Anaerobic wastewater treatment processes. Anaerobic sludge digestion. Anaerobic bioreactors.
12. Nutrient removal from wastewater. Nitrification and denitrification, enhanced biological phosphorus removal. Biochemistry and kinetics of processes. Metabolic selection of microorganisms. Technological modification of nutrient removal processes.
13. Attached biomass systems. Theoretical background of biofilm processes. Kinetics of processes. Trickling filters. Rotating biological contactors. Expanded bed and fluidised bed bioreactors.
14. Treatment, storage and disposal of waste water treatment sludge. Benefits and restrictions of wastewater treatment sludge utilization.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
Recommended reading
Tchobanoglous, G., Franklin L. Burton, F. L., Stensel H. D.: Wastewater Engineering Treatment and Reuse. Metcalf & Eddy, Inc., Fourth Edition. 2002.
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NKCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NKCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme NPCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NPCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
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Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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