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.