Course detail
Water tanks and pumping stations
FAST-BP52Acad. year: 2016/2017
Design the elevation and volume of water storage reservoirs, equipment fitting and storage chambers, types of water tanks, construction methods of water tanks.
Basic types of pumps, ways of involving pumps, pumps with variable speed, technological and service equipment of pumping stations, construction of pumping stations, cavitation, watre hammer protection , booster stations.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
Prerequisites
Municipal Technical Equipment Networks
Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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Course curriculum
losses
2. Types of water storage tanks, storage design, elevation location of the tanks
3. Equipment of the water tank valve chambers
4. Building design and construction of water storage 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
12.Excursion to the selected pumping station
13.Producers of the pumps, databases of the pumps
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Recommended reading
Paciga: Projektovanie a prevadzka čerpacej techniky. Alfa, Bratislava, 1990.
Pivoda - Šálek: Čerpací stanice. SNTL, 1982.
Teasdale. M.: European Pumps and Pumpinng. CHW Roles, 1998.
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