Course Details
Water Supply
Academic Year 2024/25
BPA003 course is part of 2 study plans
BPC-SI / V Summer Semester 3rd year
BPC-MI Summer Semester 3rd year
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. Guidelines for drinking water, water resources, water intake, pre-treatment of water.
2. Conceptual design of water supply systems, pressure zones, water consumption and water demand.
3. Water treatment, coagulation, homogenization devices, flocculation tanks.
4. Sedimentation, clarification flake cloud.
5. Filtration.
6. Oxidation and other forms of water treatment.
7. Water sanitation, chemical and sludge treatment plants.
8. Water tanks, Pumping station.
9. Hydraulic analysis of water distribution network, software tools.
10. Water network, service connections, design of pipe diametrs.
11. Pipe materials, fittings, valves.
12. Blocks on the pipes, pressure testing, project documentation, maintenance and operation.
13. Sector structure in the Czech Republic, types of utilities, the price of water.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Calculation of head losses in pipes.
2. Water demand calaculation.
3. Index of raw water treatability.
4. Design of water intake.
5. Design of floculation tank.
6. Design of sedimentation tank.
7. Technological scheme of WTP.
8. Height layout of WTP, chemical management.
9. Design of water tank elevation.
10. Pumping station, pumps working point.
11. Design of service connection and water meter manhole.
12. Fittings scheme.
13. Credit.