Drinking Water Management
- Code: 144WS
- Course type: Optional compulsory courses at branch D, Erasmus/Mobility
- Study programme: Bachelor
- Semester: winter
- Week load: 2+0
- Form of exam: classified credit
- number of credit units: 2
- Lecturer: Ing. Kateřina Slavíčková, Ph. D., Ing. Filip Horký, Ph. D.
Annotation of lectures:
- Water resources, quality of raw water
- Drinking water treatment, water treatment plant
- Treatment of raw groundwater
- Treatment of raw surface water – mechanical pre-treatment, pre-oxidation, disinfection
- Treatment of raw surface water – clarification, flotation
- Treatment of raw surface water – filtration, adsorption, stabilization, membrane processes, sludge management
- Water Demand – calculation, irregularity, leakage of water
- Pumps and pumping stations
- Water tanks – properties, design parameters, pressure zones
- Water distribution pipe system – shape and design parameters
- Water distribution pipe system – pipeline material and fittings
- Water distribution pipe system - construction and maintenance
Time schedule:
Week 1 to 12 lectures - Water treatment and subsequently Water Supply, teaching in English (attendance optional, recommended) Lectures and the test can be in a form of presence or distance learning according to the situation.
Method of study check during course:
Individual assignment on a given topic and submitting it in the required deadline.
Exam information:
Submitting the individual assignment. Test.
Exam weight for classification:
Classified credit will be awarded solely on the basis of the test.
Recommended literature:
[1] TWORT, A. C., RATNAYAKA, D. D., BRANDT, M. J.: WATER SUPPLY, 5th edition, Arnold and IWA Publishing, London, 2000[2] E.W.Steel, T.J.McGhee: Water Supply and Sewage, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition