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Balneotechnology
FAST-NPA016Acad. year: 2020/2021
Communal balneology. Visit frequency, water surface demand.
Pool water treatment - mechanical pre-treatment, clarification, sorption, filtration, pH correction, water disinfection and algae annihilation.
Pool water circulation intensity, proposal of distribution piping system and pumps.
Water streaming in pools, homogenity of disinfection means concentration.
Construction of swimming pools, construction materials, forms, surface materials, swimming pool groundwork and building of pools.
Water and heat management pool area.
Medical balneology - mineral and thermal water, water intake, transport and accumulation of medical water, peloids and their use.
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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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2. Attendance. Quality of pool water.
3. Determination of the recirculating water. Mechanical pretreatment. Coagulation filtration.
4. Properties of coagulation filtration. Sluicing filtration. Sorption.
5. Introduction to the pool water disinfection. Chlorination.
6. By-products of chlorination. Chlorine economy.
7. Ozonation. Other posibilities of the pool water disinfection. Removal of algae.
8. Reduction of soluble substances. Distributions of pool water. Gravitational and pressure part of swimming-pool circuit. Compensatory reservoir.
9. Excursion.
10. Proposal of pipes and pumps. Pipes material. Division of the swimming pools.
11. Pool construction – construction materials, surfaces, foundation, joints and penetrations. Water management pool area.
12. Disposal of pool waters. Heat management pool area. Other objects of communal spas.
13. Spa treatments – mineral and thermal waters, geological types of springs, peloids.
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- Programme NPC-SIV Master's 1 year of study, winter semester, compulsory
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