Czech

Not applicable.

Institute of Municipal Water Management (VHO)

Student will gain an overview about the significance of utility networks (conduit of technical equipment) in the contemporary society, fundamental information about system (Energy, Water and Communications infrastructure) and components of particular networks.
The student will learn the basics of designing of utility networks (conduit of technical equipment), depth information about the function, design and operation of hot water and gas networks. From the constructional point of view student will learn about building materials and principal building processes and rehabilitation of conduit of technical equipment, especially in their underground placing.
Student will manage basic of design and planning of utility networks (conduit of technical equipment).

physics, fundamentals of hydraulics and thermodynamics

not required

Presentation of the recommended calculation procedures, photo slideshows and video sequences of real objects of public utilities, project documentation, longitudinal profiles. LMS Moodle.

Mandatory participation in seminars at the seminars (only allowed two excused absence) submitting examples of exercises deadlines.

1. Task of technical equipment networks in society, their historical development. Networks economy, factors effecting capital costs.Urban egineering.
2. Spatial structure of networks,earth works for net systems. Relation to buildings and urban vegetation.
3. Collectors,their structural part and equipment. Trends of developement.
4. Theory of graphs and nets. Branch nets, loop nets. Streaming conditions analysis.
5. Water supply systems.Water demand – drinking water systems, water resources, storage and distribution. Water mains materials.
6. Sewer systems, wastewater disposal and impact on water body.Sewage and rain water handling alternatives .Materials and structures of sewer systems
7.Streaming of gases and vapours.Heat demand – central heating networks. Hot water systems and steam systems.
8. Materials of heat supply networks, pipe and structural parts.Non-channel laying of hot-water pipes. Pipe shielding.
9. Properties of heating gases and gas demand. Pressure zones of gas lines. Irregularity of gas demand.
10. Materials and equipments of gas lines.Electrochemical corrosion.
11. Electric conductor networks. Electric power system, resources. Cable lines, air wires and structural elements.Telecommunication networks. Modes of operation, configuration, interconnection with computer networks.
12. Network safety and reliability.
13. Rehabilitation of networks, living age, rehabilitation technologies.

Not applicable.

Student shell get a overview about the significance of technical equipment network in the contemporary society and fundamental information about system and components of particular networks. He shall get acquainted about connections and cohesion between particular networks, and some more detailed information about function, planning and operating of pipe networks similar to those water management ones – gas and heat piping. From the constructional point of view he shell make acquaintance with building materials and principal building processes of particular networks, especially in their underground placing. Having frecuented he should be able, after some brief amendments of knowledge, to find job in gas and heat supply branche.

Extent and forms are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

The study of recommended websites of the manufacturers and suppliers of pipe materials, fittings and valves. Study of national and European standards.

Not applicable.

BERÁNEK, Josef a kol.: Inženýrské sítě (stud. opora). Brno: VUT v Brně, FAST, 2005. (CS)

ASCE American Society Of Civil Engineers: Belowground Pipeline Networks for Utility Cables. Reston: American Society Of Civil Engineers, 2009. ISBN-10: 0784410550. (EN)
Cihelka a kol.: Vytápění, větrání, klimatizace. SNTL, Praha, 1985. (CS)
Recknagel – Sprenger: Taschenbuch der Heizungs u. Klimatechnik. Mnichov, 1995. (DE)
Stein, Dietrich: Trenchless Technology for Installation of Cables and Pipelines. Verlag Stein & Partner, 2005. ISBN 3-00-014955-4. (EN)
Šrytr a kol.: Městské inženýrství. Academia, Praha, 1998. (CS)