Wastewater Treatment Facility Hydraulic Profile 1

[CivilEngRHIT]

I am in need of information on how to develop a hydraulic profile for a wastewater treatment facility. If anyone knows anything about the subject or where I can find more information, please respond.

 

[rcooper]

Is it the hydraulics you are having problems with, the layout of the drawing or both?

 

[CivilEngRHIT]

The hydraulics. I have the treatment facility laid out.

 

[rcooper]

For open channel hydraulics, the definitive text is "Open-channel hydraulics" by V.T. Chow, ISBN 007085906X

For pipes and ducts, we use "Internal Flow Systems" by D.S. Miller. ISBN 0947711775

These are both high level books, expensive and sometimes difficult to get hold of. Any introductory university hydraulics book should give you enough background to understand these.

When you can understand hydraulics, work backwards through the works (unless you have supercritcal flow, then you work forwards) from the river top water level to the inlet chamber.

Good luck, and get some guidance from a peer.

 

[stanier]

Flowpro2 is a free ware program that will allow you estimate the hydraulic flows in basins, channels and weirs. This will assist prediction of the hydraulic gradient through a plant. As has been suggested work backwards through each structure and channel and you will be able to compute the HGL at each stage.

There was a program called Arts that specifically allowed you to do this for a water treatment plant. It wasnt that costly for the initial licence. It may not include all the types of structure you have but perhaps you can use it inconjunction with Flowpro 2.

 

[stanier]

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/engineering/hydraulics/library_arc.cfm?pub_number=22

Check out this site. Other free software is HEC RAS.