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 Academic Year: |
2014/5 |
| Owning Department/School: |
Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering |
| Credits: |
6 |
| Level: |
Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
Semester 1 |
| Assessment Summary: |
CW 30%, EX 70% |
| Assessment Detail: |
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
Reassessment exam (where allowed by programme regulations) |
| Requisites: |
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| Description: |
Aims: To give students a knowledge and understanding of water engineering applied to freshwater systems, including open channel flow, catchment hydrology, and public health engineering related to water supply, drainage and treatment. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of: * Basic open channel flow and design of a range of open channel hydraulic structures. * Surface water hydrology, including catchment systems and flood risk. * Factors and relationships affecting groundwater, including replenishment, contamination and extraction. * The main elements of water supply, sewage disposal, and surface water drainage systems. Skills: Intellectual skills * Ability to apply the concepts and principles of fluid mechanics to the solution of engineering problems. * To understand taught material and design issues and constraints. Professional/Practical skills * To deal with civil engineering hydraulic issues in a systematic yet creative way, and to communicate the conclusions clearly. Transferable/key skills * Ability to collect, analyse, synthesise and present technical information. To demonstrate communication and team working skills. Content: Surface Water Hydrology: the hydrological cycle, precipitation, surface runoff, extreme events. Open Channel Flow: steady uniform flow, steady non-uniform flow, measurement of discharge in open channels. Groundwater: occurrence of groundwater, principles of groundwater flow, well hydraulics, groundwater recharge and safe yield, groundwater contamination. Water Supply: sources of water, purity, hardness, water consumption, methods of treatment; supply networks; estimation of demand and sizing, simultaneous demand. Dams and Reservoirs: types of dams, river diversions, dam satefy, reservoirs, reservoir water quality management. Hydraulic Structures: culverts and bridge openings, dam appurtenances, hydroelectric facilities, pump intakes, cavitation in hydraulic structures, diffusers for wastewater, thermal effluent diffusers for power plants. Hydraulic Machinery: axial-flow pumps, radial and mixed flow pumps, cavitation in pumps and suction limitations, pumps operated in combination, hydraulic turbines, other types of pumps. |
| Programme availability: |
AR30344 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering
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