Hydraulic Design

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Design of water and waste water conveyance systems and storage facilities. ENVE 417 Hydraulic Design (3) The delivery of cleandrinking water and the collection of wastewater are two of the fundamentalactivities of municipal or regional governments. Installing new systems orrehabilitating old ones are expensive, large-scale infrastructure projects.Therefore, it is important that these projects be designed correctly andaddress both current population needs and growth projections for the designlife of the project, typically 25 or more years. This course builds on theconcepts learned in fluid mechanics and applies them to the design of municipalwater conveyance systems. Students learn to apply the appropriate pipe flowequation (Darcy-Weisbach, Hazen-Williams, or Chezy-Manning) to the design ofthe conveyance system,e.g ., drinkingwater supply, sanitary sewer collection and storm sewer collection systems.Their projects focus on the design of small conveyance systems and usecurrently available EPA models for water supply, sanitary sewer, and stormwaterpiping design. Students also learn to perform basic population projections,design water storage towers and design appurtenances such as manholes and stormsewer inlet s . Culvert, weir andorifice design also are covered in the class.