Urban Drainage and Sewerage
For whom?
This course is designed for professionals interested in achieving and maintaining the environment and public health. Typical students include civil, process and sanitary engineers, university faculty and researchers, and technical managers.
Dates, Fee, ECTS
Start: 16 January 2017
End: 03 February 2017
Deadline IHE application: 16 December 2016 - 23.59 (CET)
Course fee: € 2850
Learning objectives
Upon completion, the participant should be able to:
- Describe the purpose, need and importance of urban drainage and discuss the challenges of modern urban drainage.
Describe different types of sewer systems and discuss design, construction, operation and maintenance aspects, conditions of applicability and relative advantage and disadvantage of different types of sewer systems.
- Describe the hydrological processes relevant to urban storm drainage and impacts of urbanization on hydrological processes and discuss basic concepts in catchment modelling.
Describe basic concepts of fluid flow and discuss the principles, fundamentals and applicability of methods to analyze conduit and free surface flows.
- Critically determine and analyze quantity and quality characteristics of stormwater and wastewaters originating from urban environments as a basis for the design, operation and maintenances of urban drainage system facilities.
- Describe type of data required and processing methods for urban drainage management and process and analyses spatial and temporal data, design standards and regulations and health safety for proper deign, simulation and operation of urban drainage systems.
- Describe the inputs, outputs and functioning of urban drainage systems, explain the standard practice in designing urban drainage systems and develop simple drainage system designs.
- Explain the elements of an urban drainage system model, construct a simple model for analysis of hydraulics of a drainage system and interpret simple model results and use them for decision making in design, renewal and upgrading of urban drainage systems.
Course content
- Introduction to urban drainage and sewerage and Types of drainage and sewer systems
- Rainfall characteristics
- Wet weather flows quantitative characterization
- Sewerage layout and design
- Dry and wet weather flows quantitative characterization and exercise
- Conventional sewer design exercise
- Hydraulics of urban drainage and sewerage
- Pumping stations and CSOs
- Data acquisition for urban drainage and sewerage studies
- Model-based design and simulation - introduction
- Model-based design and simulation exercise
- Fieldtrip