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Wastewater treatment technology
FCH-MCO_TCOAcad. year: 2009/2010
Wastewater (WW), summary of wastewater treatment methods, technology lines, physical methods of WW treatment, physico-chemical and chemical processes, biological processes, aerobic and anaerobic biological processes, nitrogen and phosphorus elimination, systems with growing biomass, waterworks sewage, sewage stabilization, sewage disposal and possibilities of sewage utilization.
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2. Wastewater sewerage and sewerage networks.
3. Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plant flow diagrams.
4. Physical and physical-chemical processes of wastewater treatment (mechanical pretreatment, bar racks and screens, grit removal, removal of grease and oil, primary sedimentation, filtration, flow and composition equalisation).
5. Hydraulic regime in continuously flow systems. Gas transfer, flotation, neutralisation, precipitation, adsorption, oxidation and reduction, ion exchange, membrane processes, disinfection).
6. Biological wastewater treatment processes. Classification of processes (ORP, biomass form, reactor configuration).
7. Heavy metals in wastewater treatment processes.
8. Aerobic wastewater treatment processes. Activated sludge and activated sludge process. Kinetics of microorganisms growth and substrate removal. Kinetic selection of microorganisms.
9. Operational parameters. Influence of principal process variables on treatment efficiency. Biomass and activated sludge mass balance and production. Activated sludge sedimentation characteristics, reasons 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, luxury uptake. 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. Combined activated sludge and attached biomass bioreactors.
14. Treatment, storage and disposal of wastewater treatment sludge. Benefits and restrictions of wastewater treatment sludge utilization.
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- Programme NPCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NPCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme NKCP_CHTOZP Master's
branch NKCO_CHTOZP , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
- Programme CKCP_CZV lifelong learning
branch CKCO_CZV , 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
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