Course detail
Selected Chapters from Municipal Water Management
FAST-CP01Acad. year: 2011/2012
Communal and medical balneology. Visit frequency, water surface demand. Pool water treatment: mechanical pre-treatment, clarification, sorption, filtration, and pH correction. Water disinfection and algae annihilation.
Pool water circulation intensity, design of distribution piping system and pumps. Water streaming in pools, homogenity of disinfection means concentration.
Pool water heating – heat balance and equipment. Water demand for the pool premises.
Construction of swimming pools, construction materials, forms, surface materials. Swimming pool groundwork, building of pools.
Mineral and thermal water. Medical water jet structures. Water intake, delivery and accumulation of medical water. Peloids and their use.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
The student manages to project forms, constructions and materials of pools and also economic aspects of projecting pools.
The student gets knowledge of mineral and thermal waters, water intake, possibilities of transportation and storage as well as knowledge of peloids and their using.
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Course curriculum
2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment.
4. Filtration. Coagulation filtration - dosing coagulants, pH adjustment, filter regeneration.
5. Sluicing filtration. Sorption. Introduction to the pool water disinfection.
6. Chlorination and its by-products.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Pressure part of swimming-pool circuit. Design of pipes and pumps. Shapes and dimensions of the swimming pools.
10. Pool construction - construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
11. Heat management pool area.
12. Spa treatments - mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.
13. Exkursion
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Biela, R., Beránek, J.: Úprava vody a balneotechnika. Akademické nakladatelství CERM, 2004. ISBN 80-214-2563-6. (CS)
Recommended reading
Philip H. Perkins: Swimming Pools: Design and Construction. E and FN Spon, 2000. ISBN 0-419-23590-6. (EN)
Pivoda, B., Svoboda, F.: Balneotechnika. VUT Brno, 1983. (CS)
Sklenář: Balneotechnika I. ČVUT Praha, 1987. (CS)
Šťastný, B.: Stavba a provoz bazénů. ABF, a.s. - Nakladatelství ARCH, 2003. ISBN 80-86165-56-6. (CS)
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