Course Details
Selected Chapters of Plumbing
Academic Year 2024/25
CT003 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
5 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Offered to foreign students
Not to offer
Course on BUT site
Lecture
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective
Syllabus
1. Potable water demand and quantity of wastewater, introduction to pumps systems, suction head for pumps
2. Pump head-capacity curves
3. System head curves, point of pumps operation
4. Change of point of pump operation
5. Pumps and pumps stations for plumbing engineering
6. Booster pump systems and hydropneumatic tank systems for water supply
7. Determination of capacity of gravity tanks (suction, storage) and pressure tanks (diaphragm tanks)
8. Automatic wastewater lifting plants and their design
9. Sprinkler fixed extinguishing systems – purpose, application, fundamental arrangement and sprinkler installations
10. Management of rainwater, soakaways, retention tanks, rainwater harvesting
11. Central water heating – storage and instantaneous systems
12. Central water heating - design of systems components
13. Potable water conditioning before heating, control of domestic hot water temperature
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Fundamental calculations for plumbing systems.
2. Pumps and pumps systems – piping and pumps design.
3. Pump head-capacity curves. System head curves.
4. Point of pump system operation. Available suction head for pumps.
5. Water supply for building – variants.
6. Axonometric scheme of chosen variant. Water system sizing.
7. Pump station sizing for building water supply.
8. Determination of capacity of tanks.
9. Sprinkler heads arrangement.
10. Rainwater soakaway design, rainwater harvesting design.
11. Division of domestic hot water demand in building.
12. Storage heater sizing. Safety device sizing.
13. Final calculations check. Credit.