GEG3343

Public health engineering

L Soste

4 points · 26 lecture hours, 26 tutorial hours and 3 hours laboratory work, 10 hours field trips · Second semester · Gippsland/distance · Prerequisite: GEG2743

Objectives The student is expected to develop (a) an awareness of the current structure of water supply practice in Australia, and the forces shaping it, and (b) functionality with the design of a pump/pipe system.

Synopsis (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: 50% · Assignments: 50%

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