Course Details
Selected Chapters of Plumbing
Academic Year 2024/25
NTB028 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
Course Guarantor
Institute
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 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. Differentiated pipe sizing, potable water demand and quantity of wastewater.
2. Introduction to pumps systems, suction head for pumps.
3. Pump head-capacity curves, system head curves, point of pumps operation.
4. Pumps and booster pumps stations for plumbing engineering.
5. Determination of capacity of gravity tanks (suction, storage) and pressure tanks (diaphragm tanks).
6. Automatic wastewater lifting plants and their design.
7. Management of rainwater, soakaways, retention tanks, rainwater harvesting.
8. Central water heating – storage and instantaneous systems.
9. Central water heating – design of systems components.
10. Potable water conditioning, control of domestic hot water temperature.
11. Gas appliances placement, gasa devices in boiler rooms.
12. Gas installation pipework for buildings.
13. Sprinkler fixed extinguishing systems – purpose, application, fundamental arrangement and sprinkler installations.
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Potable water demand, differentiated pipe sizing.
2. Pumps and pumps systems – piping and pumps design. Available suction head for pumps.
3. Pump head-capacity curves. System head curves.
4. Pump station design for building water supply.
5. Water pressure boosting.
6. Wastewater lifting plant design.
7. Rainwater soakaway design, rainwater harvesting design.
8. Division of domestic hot water demand in building.
9. Heaters sizing.
10. Safety device of heaters design.
11. Gas appliances placement.
12. Gas installation pipework design.
13. Final calculations check. Credit.