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Natural ways of water treatment
FAST-DS58Acad. year: 2009/2010
Introduction, history and various ways of natural water treatment
Purification processes in soil, aquatic and wetland environment, importance of plants, research, polluted and water waters
Rain water disposal
Pretreatment of waste waters
Soils filters, reed bed treatment plants with horizontal and vertical flow
Aerobic biological reservoirs, anaerobic biological reservoirs, maturation ponds
Aqua-cultures, bio-reactors
Irrigation with municipal, industrial and agricultural waste waters
Legislation, combination of natural and artificial ways of treatment, modernization
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2. Quantity and content of waste water, slurry and sludge, calculations, mesurement, mechanical treatment of waste water from the small polluters.
3. Reed bed treatment plants: purification processes in filtration environment, efficiency. Function, use and treatment of plants in reed bed treatment plant.
4. Construction of reed bed treatment plant: systems, basic construction with horizontal undeground flow.
5. Design of reed bed treatment plant: calculations, construction, sealing,.. Vertical reed bed treatment plant.
6. Objects
7. Siol filters: purification processes, system, construction
8. Biological reservoirs: purification processesin aquaeous environment, anoxic reservoirs.
9. Aerobic reservoirs: design, basic construction.
10. Aerobic aerated reservoirs, aerating systems. Final treatment aerobic reservoirs. Maintenence.
11. Aquacultures, bioeliminators: principle, plants, systems.
12. Irrigation with waste water: advantages and disadvantages, possibilities of use. Purification processes in soils. Basic design.
13. Irrigation with liquid manure amd with agricultural waste water. Combination of individual ways of natural waste water treatment.
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Specific of mechanical pre-treatment solution
Knowledge of purification processes in soil, water and wetland environment, their use in various types of equipment
Ability to use the principle of designing the most used types
Environmental impact assessment, overview of legislative.
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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