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Utility networks
FAST-BP51Acad. year: 2009/2010
Function and tasks of technical equipment network (TEN) in human society. History and sorting of TEN. Economy of TEN, its bases. Space co-ordination of underground networks. Collectors. Principles of pipeline dimensioning. Pipeline networks except water pipelines.
Heat energy demand, heat energy output. Heat supplies central systems. Water and vapour pipeline heat systems. Pressure diagram of water heat supply network. Heat losses and heat insulation.
Heat gases and their properties. Heating gases demand. Gas main tracing, pressure categories. Pressure reduction gas stations.
Ring networks – computing bases, used methods, easy software.
Principles of pipe network optimisation. Metallic pipelines corrosion and its prohibition.
Cable networks, electrical power supply system. Electrical power market. Underground and overhead electrical mains. Communication networks – their structure and function principles. Metallic and optic cables.
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2. Spatial structure of networks,earth works for net systems. Relation to buildings and urban vegetation.
3. Collectors,their structural part and equipment. Trends of developement.
4. Theory of graphs and nets. Branch nets, loop nets. Streaming conditions analysis.
5. Water supply systems.Water demand – drinking water systems, water resources, storage and distribution. Water mains materials.
6. Sewer systems, wastewater disposal and impact on water body.Sewage and rain water handling alternatives .Materials and structures of sewer systems
7.Streaming of gases and vapours.Heat demand – central heating networks. Hot water systems and steam systems.
8. Materials of heat supply networks, pipe and structural parts.Non-channel laying of hot-water pipes. Pipe shielding.
9. Properties of heating gases and gas demand. Pressure zones of gas lines. Irregularity of gas demand.
10. Materials and equipments of gas lines.Electrochemical corrosion.
11. Electric conductor networks. Electric power system, resources. Cable lines, air wires and structural elements.Telecommunication networks. Modes of operation, configuration, interconnection with computer networks.
12. Network safety and reliability.
13. Rehabilitation of networks, living age, rehabilitation technologies.
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Recommended reading
GRAHAM, Stephen and MARVIN, Simon: Splintering Urbanism: networked Infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition. London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0-415-18964-0. (EN)
Kniht, M., Thomson, N.: Underground Infrastructure Research. A.A.Balkema Publischers, 2001. (EN)
Recknagel – Sprenger: Taschenbuch der Heizungs u. Klimatechnik. Mnichov, 1995. (DE)
Šrytr a kol.: Městské inženýrství. Academia, Praha, 1998. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme B-P-E-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme B-K-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme N-K-C-SI Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme N-P-C-SI Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme B-P-C-ST Bachelor's
branch VS , 2 year of study, summer semester, elective
- Programme N-P-E-CE Master's
branch E , 1 year of study, summer semester, elective