Course Details
Water Tanks and Pumping Stations
Academic Year 2024/25
BP052 course is not part of any programme in the faculty
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. Physical properties of pumped media, hydraulic of pipe fittings, local head losses
losses
2. Types of water storage tanks, storage design, elevation location of the tanks
3. Equipment of the water tank valve chambers, operation of tanks.
4. Building design and construction of water storage tanks, technical audit of water tanks.
5. Excursion to the selected water storage tank
6. Centrifugal types of pumps, the basic pumps curves
7. The proposal of basic pumping system - pumps, transmission main, water storage tank
8. Suction side of the pump, energy usage, efficiency and optimization of pumping stations
pump operation
9. Booster pumping stations, pumps with variable speed
10. Water hammer, protection against the water hammer, cavitation
11. Pressure reducing and control valves, technical audit of pumping stations.
12. Excursion to the selected pumping station
13. Producers of the pumps, databases of the pumps
Exercise
13 weeks, 2 hours/week, compulsory
Syllabus
1. Calculation of head losses
2. Calculation of local head losses in fittings
3. Calculation and design of water tank volume
4. Equipment of water tank valve chamber
5. Excursion to the selected water tank
6. Epanet 2.0 - hydraulic analysis of water distribution network, introduction
7. Epanet 2.0 - enter the parameters of hydraulic system - pumps, transmission main, water tank
8. Epanet 2.0 - setting the operating point of the pump system
9. Epanet 2.0 - kvazidynamic hydraulic analysis of the proposed pumping system
10. Epanet 2.0. - Office hours
11. Design of control and pressure reducing valves
12. Excursion to the selected pumping station
13. Credit