Hands On Training

Design of Sanitary Sewer Systems

Purdue University

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Course Features

Duration

5 weeks

Delivery Method

Online

Available on

Limited Access

Accessibility

Mobile, Desktop, Laptop

Language

English

Subtitles

English

Level

Advanced

Effort

6 hours per week

Teaching Type

Instructor Paced

Course Description

Proper design of sanitary sewer systems is essential for managing the collection and disposal of wastewaters and thereby maintaining a healthy community.

In this course, we will:

Learn to classify flows in open channels, use Manning equation to calculate normal depth, plot specific energy diagrams, and calculate critical depth. Concepts of gradually varied flow, water surface profiles, and hydraulic jump will be presented.
Study the different sources of wastewater, variation of flow over time, types of drainage systems, design considerations for sanitary sewers. A project at the end of the course will provide hands-on experience in designing a sanitary sewer system by gravity flow over a study area.

Course Overview

Live Class

Human Interaction

Personlized Teaching

International Faculty

Post Course Interactions

Instructor-Moderated Discussions

Skills You Will Gain

Prerequisites/Requirements

An undergraduate course in hydraulics or fluid mechanics.

CE59700.1 Analysis and Design of Water Distribution Systems would be highly desired.

What You Will Learn

Analyze and design small sanitary sewer systems

Calculate wastewater flows

Compute gradually varied flow profiles over a channel reach.

Identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems

Course Content

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Module 1: Open channel definitions, uniform flow, normal depths, critical depths, chokes

Module 2: Sanitary sewer design by gravity flow.

Module 3: Gradually varied flows, flow profiles, direct step method, hydraulic jump.

Module 4: Wastewater flow sources, computation of flow rates

Course Instructors

Rao Govindaraju

Bowen Engineering Head of Civil Engineering and Christopher B. And Susan S. Burke Professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University

Rao S. Govindaraju is the Bowen Engineering Head and the Christopher B. and Susan S. Burke Professor in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. He earned his PhD in civil engineering fr...