CCE54800 - Design of Urban Water Infrastructure - The Robert H. Buckman College of Engineering Online Education Program - Purdue University

CCE54800 - Design of Urban Water Infrastructure

The course deals with sources and distribution of water in urban environments, including distribution and pumping systems, analysis of sewer systems and drainage courses for the disposal of both wastewater and storm water. A review of fundamental principles including mass, momentum, and energy equations along with concepts of energy and hydraulic grade lines is provided. Equations governing water movement in pressurized pipelines are covered for both steady state analysis and transient problems through extended period simulations for use in analysis and design of water distribution systems and pump design and selection. Open channel hydraulics principles are discussed to calculate gradually varied flow profiles and learn about the Saint Venant equations for one-dimensional open channel flows. Different sources of wastewater, variability of flowrates, and types of drainage systems are described for design of sanitary sewers. Estimating design rainfall using frequency analysis is covered along with methods of runoff computation for design of storm sewer systems, determination of storage volumes for detention storage structures and level pool routing. EPANET and EPA-SWMM software packages are used for applications.