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Terminated in academic year 2021/2022

Water Management Facilities II

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 546-0089/03
Abbreviation VhZ II
Course title Water Management Facilities II
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator prof. Ing. Vojtěch Václavík, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The subject deals with the functions and constructions of sewage systems, wastewater treatment plants as well as related facilities and installation used for treatment of municipal, industrial and agricultural wastewaters.

Curriculum:
1. The history, purpose, basic terms and definitions of sewers and wastewater treatment.
2. Waste water - specifications, types, analysis
3. Systems and ordering systems of sewerage network
4. Means of transport of waste water - pressure, pneumatic drains
5. Means of transport, waste water treatment - vacuum, low profile sewage
6. Principles of design of sewerage networks - hydrological data, calculate the quantity of waste water sewage and rainwater.
7. Shapes and sizes of sewers. Material of sewer networks. How sewer deposit pipeline
8. Objects of the sewage network - manholes, converging shafts, shaft fracture, distribution chamber, well holes, slip
9. Objects of the sewage network - storm drains, sediment traps, objects outlet hole, snow throw, ventilation systems, pumping stations.
10. Objects of the sewage network - sewer inverted siphon, vent chambers
11. Maintenance of the sewer system. Sewers.
12. The arrangement of wastewater treatment plant.
13. Water supply - the project documentation, principles of design and construction, pipe material, fittings.
14. Water supply - objects on the water mains, water service pipes.
15. Technical requirements for the construction of water supply and sewerage systems


Framework plan of seminars:
1. Specifying the semestral project “Proposal of a sewage system in a city suburb”. Basic terms, terminology and definitions pursuant to ČSN 73 6522.
2. Layout drawing - part 1.
3. Layout drawing – part 2.
4. Hydrotechnical drawing - part 1.
5. Hydrotechnical drawing – part 2.
6. Longitudinal profile of designed sewers – part 1.
7. Longitudinal profile of designed sewers – part 2.
8. Drawing - longitudinal profile of the sewage system - part 1.
9. Drawing - longitudinal profile of the sewage system - part 2.
10. Drawing – model cross-section of laid sewage pipes
11. Hydraulic calculation of the designed sewage system – part 1.
12. Hydraulic calculation of the designed sewage system – part 2.
13. Technical report. Assembly of drawings.
14. Checking of the drawings and granting of credits.

Literature

[1] VÁCLAVÍK, V.:WATER MANAGEMENT FACILITIES II. Lectures, VŠB-TUO, 2012.

Advised literature

[1] Metcalf + Eddy: Wastewater Engineering, Treatment, Disposal and Reuse, McGRAW-HILL, New York, 1985.
[2] American Society of Civil Engineers: Gravity Sanitary Sewer Design and Construction, 2002.