The task of the master’s thesis is a study focused on re-use and process wastewater in the company Kostelecké uzeniny a.s. The thesis contains a description of wastewater treatment plants, sewage flow and metabolic load on each water treatment processes. The thesis describes the limit requirements for technological processes within the enterprise. Few variants of the use of alternative water sources for technological processes on the basis of health conditions that has been designed for treating waste water from truck wash were considered in the thesis. Treated waste water is being re-used within the truck wash. Part of the proposal is also economic calculation and evaluation of return on investment.

Administrative building with changing rooms and washrooms facilities for associated industrial production in the faktory building. Use rainwater for flushing. Solution separated sewers. Rainwater brought into the retention tank where it is collected for flushing, excess rain water seeps through theblocks generated drainage system in the basement. Investigation using water-efficient fixtures and equipment. Designed saving shower heads, batteries, toilet tanks and efficient operation of the urinals.

The thesis is concerned on the topic "Instruments of environmental protection in the Czech Republic". The environmental law knows some categories of instruments. Mostly they are divided according to the influence to the subjects, respectively if they have direct influence to subjects or not. First category of direct instruments is called conceptual instruments and includes group of plans, programs and other documents concerned on scheming in area of environmental protection. Second group of direct instruments is called administrative instruments. These instruments contain commands, prohibitions, permits and approvals. They also contain standards categorization and ecologically-legal liability. Third group of direct instruments is called voluntary instruments. These instruments contain voluntary agreements, environmental managements systems and eco-labeling. Last group of instrument described in this thesis are institutional instruments. They are concerned on system of institutions which have some competences in environmental protection. They are divided according to area of their competences or according to the kind of competences they have. Indirect instruments are represented mostly by the economical instruments. These instruments are divided according to the form of stimulation of subjects'...

This diploma thesis deals with the legal regime of protected areas and protective zones used to protect water. The diploma thesis is composed of four chapters. Chapter one defines basic terms, a protected area and protective zone, in general. This chapter also contains a comparison of both institutes and their application in environmental protection. The second chapter deals with the sources of relevant legislation protected areas and protective zones to protect water. Chapters three and four are central of the thesis as they contain an interpretation of legislation of each types of protected areas and protective zones to protect water. For individual institutes is analyzed their concept, function, form and method of their determination and especially their special legal regime based namely on bans and restrictions regarding certain activities in the given area. Attention is also paid to various limitations of property rights to real estate in the protected areas and protective zones and to possible compensations for such limitations.

Watercourses influenced by anthropogenic activity increases in recent years and streams lose their natural character. This situation is critical particularly in small streams with minimal flow rates. The present work deals with the assessment of streams affected by discharges of treated wastewater from small waste water treatment plants. The results showed that in case of average flow in the recipient none of the monitored waste water treatment plants do not negatively affect the stream. Problems can occur when snow melts, when the lower temperature of the flowing water in the wastewater treatment plants negatively affect biological cleaning processes.

Student Number : 9104308Y - Msc Eng research report - School of Mining Engineering - Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment / African Explosives Limited (AEL) is involved with the Hybrid Stress Blast Model (HSBM) project in the characterisation of its bulk explosives and part of this involves the collection of unconfined detonation velocities (VoD). Historical methods of unconfined VoD measurements and earlier measurements taken for the HSBM project did not attribute significance to the strength of the light containment media used, which was either cardboard or PVC, in various wall thicknesses. The main focus of this exercise was to investigate this significance and to make recomendations to the HSBM on the choice of pipes for future tests. ANFO was used in order to avoid complexities of manufacturing and density variation, which arise with emulsion explosives. Plastic sleeves were used as a control in defining a medium of negligible confinement in order to compare the results in PVC and cardboard pipes. The cardboard pipes selected had wall thicknesses of 2mm and 4mm, while the PVC pipes had pressure ratings of 4 Bar and 9 Bar with wall thicknesses from 1.5mm to 8.5mm. The inner diameters ranged between 45mm and 253mm. The following findings have been made in this report. - Plastic sleeves were not effective in comparing the effects of confinement, but the results suggests that thin walled carboard pipes are probably very close to unconfined, even near the critical diameter. - PVC pipes affect VoD more than cardboard pipes and the confinement provided by both types of pipes increases with their wall thickness. - Critical diameter increases with weaker confinement and vice versa. - VoDs in the different types of confinement converge as diameter increases. - Future unconfined VoD tests should take cognisance of the findings of this project. A similar confinement investigation would be benificial to determine whether similar trends prevail with Emulsion and Emulsion-ANFO blend explosives. However if such an evaluation is not conducted, the minimum requirements for further tests should be to apply the confinement and diameter relationships as determined for ANFO during this investigation.

The diploma thesis is focused on the issue of surface water pollution, which is one of the biggest problems of the contemporary world. The pollution of watercourses and reservoirs worsens the quality of aquatic ecosystems as well as ecosystems in their surroundings. The typical sources of surface water pollution include especially point sources (human settlements, industrial sites) and land resources (agriculture). While the point sources of pollution can be monitored, the situation is far more complicated for the field sources. In agricultural farming, the fertilizer residues, pesticides and other substances come into the groundwater and the surface water. The aim of this work is to find out the quality of surface water in the measuring profiles (river Malše), to find out the hydrological situation during the year and to evaluate the impact of chemical pollution sources influencing the quality of the surface water in the river basin.

A produção mundial de aço inoxidável nos últimos anos teve o maior crescimento dentre os principais metais usados na indústria. É notável a importância dos processos industriais dos aços inoxidáveis devido ao contínuo desenvolvimento desses materiais, em busca de uma melhor qualidade, com menores custos de produção e de forma sustentável. Uma das formas de obtenção do aço inoxidável é através do processo VOD, que consiste em remover o carbono do aço pela a injeção de oxigênio e reduzindo a pressão parcial do gás (CO) através da aplicação de vácuo. A primeira etapa desse processo é o sopro de oxigênio, onde é importante controlar a pressão do sistema de maneira a promover a menor oxidação do cromo sem ocorrência de transbordamentos de aço e excesso de \"splash\". Atualmente, existem diversas práticas de operação no VOD em que se tem uma redução contínua da pressão de vácuo em conjunto com alterações de outras variáveis durante o sopro de oxigênio, de forma a controlar a reação de descarburação sem perder em excesso, o cromo. O objetivo desse trabalho foi encontrar o tempo de sopro de oxigênio em função do carbono inicial para cada corrida, a partir do qual seja possível reduzir a pressão de vácuo sem causar danos ao processo. Isso porque a geometria da panela e o teor de carbono inicial empregados na Villares Metals S.A. possuem características distintas em comparação com outras plantas, que faz com que seu processo de descarburação seja singular. Nos resultados obtidos é possível confirmar que, operando com pressões de vácuo mais baixas durante o sopro de oxigênio, pode-se evitar perdas desnecessárias de cromo. Além disso, a relação encontrada entre o tempo de sopro e o carbono inicial através de uma equação cinética, pode ser utilizada na determinação do tempo aproximado para redução da pressão de vácuo para cada corrida. Assim se terá uma operação de descarburação mais eficiente em relação à oxidação dos elementos de liga e redução do consumo de oxigênio, de redutores e do tempo de processo, com segurança e economia. / The stainless steel melt shop production growth in the last years was the biggest comparing to the other important metals in the industry. It is noticeable the importance of the stainless industrial process due to its continuous development in order to seek better quality with lower costs and sustainable methods. One of the possibilities to produce stainless is by VOD process, which consists to remove the carbon content by oxygen injection and reducing the partial pressure of (CO) gas through vacuum application. Oxygen blowing is the first step of this process, where it is important to control the chamber pressure in order to avoid the chromium oxidation without steel overflow and excessive splash during process. Currently, different operation practices in the VOD have been applied reducing continuously the vacuum pressure simultaneously with other parameters during oxygen blowing, in the interest of controlling the decarburization reaction avoiding the loss of chromium. The objective of this study was to find the oxygen blowing time according to the initial carbon content for each heat, from which it is possible to reduce the vacuum pressure avoiding damages to the process. The reason of this is due to the ladle geometry and the initial carbon content applied on the Villares Metals process have special characteristics comparing to other plants, which make its process singular. On the results achieved, it is possible to confirm that, operating in lower vacuum pressure during oxygen blowing, it is possible to avoid unnecessary chromium losses. Moreover, the ratio found out between the blowing time and the initial carbon content through a kinetic equation, can be applied to determine the estimated time to reduce the vacuum pressure for each heat. Therefore, the decarburization process will be more efficient according to the alloy oxidation and save the oxygen consumption, deoxidizers and process time, with safe and reducing cost.

Diplomová práce se zabývá problematikou rozvoje širokopásmového připojení (broadbandu) k Internetu v České republice. Snaží se odpovědět na otázky nízké penetrace domácností Internetem u nás a překážek jejího rozvoje. Práce ve své úvodní části obsahuje analýzu v Česku nejrozšířenějších dostupných možností připojení k Internetu a jednotlivých nabízených služeb včetně formulace nutných podmínek na trhu pro rozvoj broadbandu v ČR. Na tuto analýzu navazuje kapitola trendů v oblasti broadbandu, tedy pohled na plány významných subjektů v Česku i ve světě, na současnou do jisté míry latentní poptávku po službách využívajících broadband infrastrukturu a projektované zákaznické potřeby. Z této analýzy vyplývají důležité závěry, které jsou následně využity pro formulaci doporučení v podobě klíčových faktorů úspěchu firem působících na broadband trhu. Další text práce se rovněž zabývá současným stavem GTS Novera a dívá se i na její veřejně dostupné plány dalšího rozvoje. Načerpané teoretické znalosti jsou následně použity ke zpracování samotného přínosu práce, jímž je case studie zasíťování modelového pražského sídliště broadband infrastrukturou a navržení reálného technicko-ekonomicko-obchodního modelu pro společnost GTS Novera k realizaci byznys plánu v těchto konkrétních podmínkách. Následně jsou tyto výsledky zasazeny do rámce studie návratnosti investice s návrhem nových služeb pro další rozvoj společnosti GTS Novera.

The purpose of the current study is to increase the understanding of different steelmaking processes at the decarburization stages by use of mathematical modeling. More specifically, two De-Laval nozzles from a VOD (Vaccum Oxygen Decarburization) process, which is used for producing stainless steels with ultra-low carbon grades, was investigated for different vessel pressures. Moreover, the post combustion phenomena in a BOF or LD (Linz-Donawitz) process as well as an AOD (Argon Oxygen Decarburization) process were studied focusing on the decarburization stage. Two industrial VOD nozzles were numerically studied and compared at different temperatures and ambient pressures. Flow patterns of the oxygen jet under different ambient pressures were predicted and the flow information at different positions from the nozzle was analyzed. In addition, the effects of different ambient temperatures on the jet velocity and the dynamic pressure were compared. The predictions revealed that a little under-expansion is somewhat helpful to improve the dynamic pressure. The jet dynamic pressure and its width for the specific nozzle geometry were also studied. It was observed that a variation in the ambient pressure can influence the jet momentum and its width. In addition, a high ambient temperature was found to have a positive effect on the improvement of the jet dynamic pressure. Furthermore, it was found that a change in ambient pressure has a stronger effect on the jet force than a change in the ambient temperature. In addition, it was proved that the profiles of the dynamic pressure at a certain blowing distance fit well to Multi-Gaussian distribution. Post combustion in a BOF/LD and an AOD process during decarburization was also studied. Two mathematical models were created to show the post combustion phenomenon inside the converters, respectively. For the CFD modeling of the two processes, the realizable k-ɛ model, the species transport model and the discrete ordinate were adopted to calculate the turbulence, gas reaction and radiation present in the gas phase in the converter. For the BOF/LD modeling, a series of plant tests were conducted to collect data, which were used in the current model. These include the off-gas information, emissivity data, oxygen blowing parameters and the chemical composition of steel. After the simulation, the predicted flow pattern and detailed information of the gases taking part in the post combustion were compared to plant data. Specifically, the off-gas data from the plant was used for the model verification. The measured CO2 concentration was 15-20 wt% and the predicted value from the modeling was 16.7 wt%. For the AOD converter of interest in the current work, a fan is installed in the end of the AOD flue to help extract the off-gas from the converter. The influence of different fan gauge pressures as well as temperatures of the gas mixture, containing the generated CO and argon, on the post combustion in the whole AOD system was studied. It was indicated from the modeling results that the post combustion was only present in the flue for the present modeling conditions. Moreover, a critical fan gauge pressure (approx.. -550 Pa) was found which could yield a maximum post combustion in the flue gas. For both two models (BOF/LD and AOD), simulations indicated that a change of the converter temperature from 1500 to 1700 °C did not influence the post combustion reaction to a large degree. In addition, these two models can be regarded as the first step for a future more in-depth modeling work of the post combustion. / <p>QC 20130913</p>