Public health engineering
BI
L Soste
4.5 points * 26 lecture hours, 26 tutorial hours, 3 hours laboratory work, 10 hours field trips * Second semester * Gippsland * Prerequisites: GEG2743
(1) Historical development of water supply practice in Victoria. (2) Development of the resource at the headworks. (3) Water resources planning. (4) Gravity pipeline: hydraulic design and installation. (5) Pumped system: pump selection, pump and pipe system economics, waterhammer. (6) Balancing storage. Water quality and treatment. (7) Distribution Systems. (8) Asset/maintenance management. (9) Water supply for irrigation systems. (10) Historical development of wastewater collection systems. Constituents of wastewater. (11) Hydraulic design of sewer reticulation systems.
Assessment
Examination: 40% * Assignments: 60%
Prescribed texts
Hammer M J Water and wastewater technology Prentice-Hall, 1986