Course Details

Water Tanks and Pumping Stations

Academic Year 2024/25

BPB007 course is part of 1 study plan

BPC-SI / V Winter Semester 4th year

Course Guarantor

Institute

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

5 credits

Semester

winter

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. Water tank as an object, function and types, location, water volume in tanks. 2. Construction and construction of water tanks. 3. Pipe fitting of water tanks and other equipment. 4. Pump, pump clasification. 5. Characteristics of pumps, functional equations, pumping systems (example). 6. Introduction to mathematical modeling in water industry. 7. Excursion to water tank / pump station. 8. Utilization of means for mathematical modeling in the design of water tanks and pumping stations. 9. Requirements for pumping stations, inlet and suction layout, discharge piping. 10. Water hammer. 11. Regulation and optimization of pump operation, automatic pressure stations. 12. Pump manufacturers, working with digital catalogs, pump selection. 13. Special fittings, optimization of the water systém.

Exercise

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory

Syllabus

1. Armature chambre. 2. Usable volume of tanks. 3. Dimensions of accumulation tanks, levels. 4. Water tank handling chamber – structure of pipe fittings. 5. Handling chamber of the water reservoir – drawing, tutorial exercise. 6. Pump systém. 7. Excursion. 8. Epanet – static model of the water supply network. 9. Epanet – Dynamic model of the water supply network, water tank design. 10. Epanet – Design of a water tank with software support. 11. Seminar work elaboration. 12. Pump manufacturers, pump selection. 13. Credit.