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STUDY PLANS
2024/2025

Drinking Water Management

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Code Completion Credits Range Language
144WS KZ 2 2P English
Course guarantor:
Kateřina Slavíčková
Lecturer:
Filip Horký, Kateřina Slavíčková
Tutor:
Filip Horký, Kateřina Slavíčková
Supervisor:
Department of Urban Water Management
Synopsis:

Water treatment and water supply

Requirements:

None.

Syllabus of lectures:

Water supply in the Czech Republic, in Prague.

Water supply in the countries / in regions from them the students come. - Assignment of student work.

Water sources – groundwater sources and surface water sources (abstraction and intake objects, water quality)

Chemistry, microbiology and biology of water (significance of characteristics of water, standards)

History of water treatment, processes of drinking water treatment, water treatment plants

Surface water treatment – screening, pre oxidation, sedimentation, clarification, dissolved air flotation, filtration, adsorption, stabilisation, disinfection

Groundwater treatment – removal of CO2, iron and manganese, disinfection, filtration

Water demand, disproportion in water demand, leakage of water.

Storage Necessary. Pressure zones.

Pumps and pumping stations

Distribution of water.

Design of water distribution systems.

Materials of pipe system.

Construction and maintenance of distribution systems

Syllabus of tutorials:

The subject has no exercise.

Study Objective:

Students will gain some basic information about drinking water treatment and supply.

Study materials:

1. R. K. Linsley, J.B. Franzini: Water-Resources Engineering, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York

2. E.W.Steel, T.J.McGhee: Water Supply and Sewage, fifth edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition

Note:
Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:
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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:
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Data valid to 2024-11-05
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