Course detail

Utility networks

FAST-BP55Acad. year: 2009/2010

Function and tasks of technical equipment network (TEN) in human society. History and sorting of TEN. Economy of TEN, its bases. Space co-ordination of underground networks. Collectors. Principles of pipeline dimensioning. Pipeline networks except water pipelines.
Heat energy demand, heat energy output. Heat supplies central systems. Water and vapour pipeline heat systems. Pressure diagram of water heat supply network. Heat losses and heat insulation.
Heat gases and their properties. Heating gases demand. Gas main tracing, pressure categories. Pressure reduction gas stations.
Ring networks – computing bases, used methods, easy software.
Principles of pipe network optimisation. Metallic pipelines corrosion and its prohibition.
Cable networks, electrical power supply system. Electrical power market. Underground and overhead electrical mains. Communication networks – their structure and function principles. Metallic and optic cables.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Department

Institute of Municipal Water Management (VHO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Student will manage basic of design and planning of technical equipment network, and some more detailed information about function, planning and operating of gas and heat pipe networks.

Prerequisites

The student shall manage the fundamental hydraulics, pyhysics of heat and gases, in mathematics the count of probability and water chemistry on the secondary level. Of the point of view of building technologies and materials it is suitable, if building construction and water construction instructions go before.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Not applicable.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Requirements for successful completion of the subject are specified by guarantor’s regulation updated for every academic year.

Course curriculum

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.
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Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

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.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

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

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

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

Recommended reading

Cihelka a kol.: Vytápění, větrání, klimatizace. SNTL, Praha, 1985. (CS)
GRAHAM, Stephen and MARVIN, Simon: Splintering Urbanism: networked Infrastructures, technological mobilities and the urban condition. London: Routledge, 2001. ISBN 0-415-18964-0. (EN)
Kniht, M., Thomson, N.: Underground Infrastructure Research. A.A.Balkema Publishers, 2001. (EN)
Recknagel – Sprenger: Taschenbuch der Heizungs u. Klimatechnik. Mnichov, 1995. (DE)
Šrytr a kol.: Městské inženýrství. Academia, Praha, 1998. (CS)

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme B-P-C-SI Bachelor's

    branch S , 4 year of study, summer semester, elective

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Exercise

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer