Water Distribution Systems
Your text book is:
"Water
Processing and Transmission Systems"
By : Mohsen Kahrom
1st Edition,
2002
ISBN
964-5782-74-0,
Course
Structure (for Water Distribution Systems)
Course covers following Subjects:
Sources of Potable water, It's distribution and
availability on the earth,
Potable water
quality,
Water storage
systems,
Water quality,
methods of controlling quality,
Main line Design,
Pipe standards and
pipe materials,
Pipe line protection
Water distribution
systems, how to design it
Hardy-Cross method of
networks solution, Newton-Raphson and Linear method
Pumps and Pump
Station Design
Theoretical aspects
Work and energy
transfer, characteristic curves, effect of viscosity
Similarity laws,
specific speed
Cavitations, NPSH,
How to select a
pump, pumps in series, pumps in parallel
Vertical pumps,
horizontal pumps
Equivalent
characteristic curves for combination of pumps, by passes, pipe lines, …
General
consideration of pump station design
Water Hammer
Conservation
equations
Speed of sound in
pipe wall
Methods of solving
conservative equations
Graphical method of
solution
Effect of boundary
condition on maximum pressure
Varity methods used
to control water hammer maximum pressure in pipe lines
Separation in water
column
General aspects of
differencing techniques
Solution of water
hammer equations along a pipe line, due to pump station failure (See
transient solution as an example)
During the course
sessions, students shall be provided by examples, visiting one of storage
dames, one of pump stations,
one of pipe
producing company. Students are requested to do some home works and carry on
realistic design projects.
List
of some useful programs
List of Epanet Program