Water Supply Engineering

CE25C05:

Water Supply Engineering

Course objective:

To enable students to understand the planning, design, treatment, and distribution of safe and sustainable water supply systems, including source selection, water quality assessment, treatment technologies, and distribution networks in accordance with codal provisions.

Sources, Quality of Water: Planning of water supply, population forecasting, water demand, sources (surface & groundwater), water quality and standards.

Activity: Poster on water sources and quality comparison for a town.

Collection, Conveyance: Intake structures, pipe materials, hydraulics of pipe flow, Transmission main design – Laying, jointing and testing of pipes, pumps and appurtenances.

Activity: Model Making of an intake and conveyance system.

Conventional Water Treatment: Unit operations and processes – Principles, functions, and design of water treatment plant units, aerators, flash mixers, Coagulation and flocculation –Design of Clarifloccuator -Plate and tube settlers - Pulsator clarifier - sand filters - Disinfection - Residue Management – Operation and Maintenance aspects.

Advanced Water Treatment: Sequencing Batch Reactor - Moving bed biofilm Reactor - Membrane Bioreactor - UASB - Biogas recovery - Reclamation and Reuse of sewage - Constructed Wetland - Nutrient removal systems - Desalination.

Activity: Site Visit to a municipal water treatment plant.

Distribution Systems: Components – Selection of pipe material – Service reservoirs Functions – Network design – Analysis of distribution networks – Appurtenances - Leak detection.

Building Water Supply: House service connection – Fixtures and fittings, systems of plumbing and types of plumbing- relevant NBC provisions.

Activity: Case-based exercise on building water supply design.

Weightage: Continuous Assessment: 40%, End Semester Examinations: 60%

Methodology for Continuous Assessment: Quiz - 10%, Poster presentation - 15%; Site visit report – 10%; Model making – 15%; Internal Examinations – 50%

References

1. Garg, S.K. Environmental Engineering, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 2018.

2. Modi, P.N., Water Supply Engineering, Vol.I Standard Book House, New Delhi, 2021.

3. Punmia, B.C., Ashok Jain and Arun Jain, Water Supply Engineering, Laxmi Publications (P) Ltd., New Delhi, 2012. 

4. Manual on Water Supply and Treatment Systems, CPHEEO, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India, New Delhi, 2023.

5. IS 10500:2012 Drinking Water – Specification.

6. IS 2065:1983 Code of Practice for Water Supply in Buildings.