Course Details
Selected Chapters of Plumbing
Academic Year 2023/24
NTB028 course is part of 1 study plan
NPC-SIS Summer Semester 1st year
Differentiated water installations pipes sizing. Theoretical fundamentals of pumping process within hydraulic systems. Pump application within plumbing engineering specialization – overview of systems applied for water supply and drainage for buildings. Design of pump stations and conjoint equipment.
Basic information about sprinkler fixed extinguishing systems.
Acquaintances extension of rainwater soakaways and retention tanks, rainwater harvesting and central domestic hot water heating systems. Overview of appliances for potable water conditioning. Problems of domestic hot water temperature control. Gas installation pipework and appliances for buildings.
Basic information about sprinkler fixed extinguishing systems.
Acquaintances extension of rainwater soakaways and retention tanks, rainwater harvesting and central domestic hot water heating systems. Overview of appliances for potable water conditioning. Problems of domestic hot water temperature control. Gas installation pipework and appliances for buildings.
Course Guarantor
Institute
Objective
To extend basic information of plumbing engineering especially in the area of water pumping, extinguishing systems and water heating systems. Design pumping stations within plumbing engineering specialization, to do conjoint hydraulic calculations and to process necessary drawings, further the students will be able to design domestic hot water systems efficiently including thermal calculations. Sprinkler fixed extinguishing systems.
Knowledge
Student upgrade his qualifications in plumbing systems in buildings.
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.
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.
Prerequisites
Fundamentals of hydraulics - water flow in a closed pressurized systems and gravity flow systems, basic principles of plumbing, basic knowledge of hot water supply systems and gas installations.
Language of instruction
Czech
Credits
4 credits
Semester
summer
Forms and criteria of assessment
course-unit credit and examination
Specification of controlled instruction, the form of instruction, and the form of compensation of the absences
Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.
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.