Course detail
Composition and Properties of Natural Waters
FAST-NCB006Acad. year: 2024/2025
Chemical equilibria, inorganic compounds and the main inorganic polutants, organic compounds in water and the main organic pollutants, gases, fundamentals of water analysis, eutrophication, self-purification, hydrochemical classification of surface, underground, mineral, and atmospheric waters.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
5
Mode of study
Not applicable.
Guarantor
Department
Institute of Chemistry (CHE)
Entry knowledge
Chemical nomenclature, basic chemical rules, theory of acids and bases, compilation of chemical equations, stoichiometric calculations, concentration and its expression, fundamentals of hydrochemistry and analytical chemistry.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
Aims
selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.
Student will master the aim of the subject, i.e. selected chapters from hydrochemistry of underground and surface waters.
Study aids
Not applicable.
Prerequisites and corequisites
Not applicable.
Basic literature
MALÁ J. Složení a vlastnosti přírodních vod. Studijní opora. Brno: CERM, 2006. (CS)
Recommended reading
PITTER, P. Hydrochemie. Vysoká škola chemicko-technologická v Praze. Praha, 2015. (CS)
Elearning
eLearning: currently opened course
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme NPC-SIV Master's 1 year of study, summer semester, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hod., optionally
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- 1. Chemical equilibria, pH.
- 2. Inorganic macrocomponents, iron, manganese.
- 3. Aluminum, sulphur, silicon, boron, halogens.
- 4. Carbon, calcium-carbonate equilibrium, gases.
- 5. Nitrogen, phosphorus.
- 6. Organic compounds.
- 7. Transformation of compounds in aqueous environment.
- 8. Environment and its protection.
- 9. Inorganic pollutants.
- 10. Organic pollutants.
- 11. Selected analytical methods, group determinations of organic compounds.
- 12. Atmospheric, underground, mineral, and sea waters.
- 13. Surface water, eutrophication, self-purification.
Exercise
26 hod., compulsory
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
- Introduction, safety of work in a chemical laboratory, calculations
- Determination of neutralization capacities and nonequilibrium concentrations of carbon dioxide
- Photometric methods, construction of calibration curve, determination of orthophosphates
- Determination of nitrates
- Active chlorine and its reaction with ammonia
- Redox reactions, reduction of dichromate by sulfite
- Biochemical Oxygen Demand
- Sensoric properties of water
- Presentation of seminar works
- Presentation of seminar works
- Measurement on site
- Measurement on site
- Credit
Elearning
eLearning: currently opened course