Course detail
Designing of facilities in waste water treatment technologies
FCH-MC_COVAcad. year: 2025/2026
The course provides theoretical knowledge and practical skills to design facilities in waste water treatment plant (WWTP). The complex project of the municipal WWTP is solved in 3-4 member team and it is focused on theoretical, computational, and engineering designs of each facility: pumping stations, waste water (WW) pretreatment, biological treatment, and sludge management. In this case, the course is also focused on innovative technologies material transformation of sewage sludge, membrane technologies, technologies for reuse of treated WW and the technology to remove organic pollutants from WW. The course provides an experience of teamwork of the complex design of WWTP.
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Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Attendance at lectures is not obligatory but recommended. Participation in courses is obligatory.
Aims
The student will gain experience in team work with the focus on the design of waste water treatment plant technologies. The experience will be from the point of view of construction, technology, calculation, and economic parameters.
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Hlavínek P., Mičín J., Prax P., Hluštík P., Mifek R., Studijní opora Stokování a čištění odpadních vod, odpadních vod, Vysoké učení technické v Brně, Fakulta stavební, 2006. (CS)
Chudoba, J., Dohányos, M., Wanner, J.: Biological Waste Water Treatment, Prague, ISBN, 80-03-00611-2, 1991 (CS)
Liu Sean X.: Food and Agricultural Wastewater Treatment, Blackwell Publishing, 2007 (CS)
Malý, J., Hlavínek, P.: Industrial Waste Water Treatment, NOEL 2000 s.r.o., 1996 (CS)
Metcalf, Eddy: Wastewater Engineering, Treatment, Disposal and Reuse, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2002 (CS)
Rada, E.C.: Thermochemical Waste Treatment, Combustion, Gasification and Other Methodologies. CRC Press Taylor and Francis Group, 2017 (CS)
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Syllabus
2. Hydrotechnical calculations for WWTP design
3. Waste water (WW) pumping station, WW overflows
4. Pre-treatment of waste water
5. Biological treatment process, design of an activation tank
6. Biological treatment process, design of an settling tank
7. Sludge management at the WWTP
8. Drying of sewage sludge (solar and belt dryer)
9. Material transformation of sewage sludge (gasification, incineration, hydrothermal carbonization, pyrolysis, torrefaction)
10. Membrane treatment processes
11. Reuse technologies (clean WW reuse and heat energy reuse from WW)
12. Removal of organic pollutants from WW
13. Presentation of the WWTP design
Guided consultation in combined form of studies
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