Projeto de Sistemas de Abastecimento de Água

Students should have knowledge about Hydraulics, particularly pressurized flows.

In classes, expository and inquisitive methods are used. During the approach to the program subjects, practical situations are exposed and critical thinking and understanding are encouraged, with active participation in classes; Students solve exercises individually or in groups.
Some classes are tutorial type, when individual learning skills and teamwork are explored through clarifying doubts and monitoring the proposed work.
Throughout the semester, students develop a project for a water supply system, in groups of 2 or 3 students.

This course aims to acquire the knowledge necessary for the interpretation, conception and design of water supply systems (capture, treatment, adduction, storage and distribution).
Generic Skills: application of knowledge and understanding; carrying out judgment and decision making; self-learning; teamwork; written and oral communication.
Specific skills: design and dimension water supply systems; understand hydrological phenomena and recognise the potential of using water as an economic factor of production and social progress; introduce the main chemical, physical and biological processes involved in water treatment applicable to the design and management of treatment plants.

1. Fields of applied hydraulics. Brief references
2. Urban hydraulics. Introduction
3. Regulatory provisions and regulations
4. Water supply systems
4.1. Base elements
4.1.1. Project planning
4.1.2. Population
4.1.3. Domestic water demand
4.1.4. Other demands
4.1.5. Fire flow
4.1.6. Water loss and leakage
4.1.7. Peak factors
4.1.8. Average discharge and peak discharge
4.2. Overall design
4.3. Organs and constituent parts. Description and design
4.3.1. Intakes
4.3.2. Water treatment plants
4.3.3. Conveyance. Water hammer.
4.3.4. Pumping stations
4.3.5. Reservoirs
4.3.6. Distribution networks

To be eligible for assessment during the current academic year, students are required to complete all practical assignments proposed during classes by the last day of the first-semester teaching period (Continuous Assessment).

Students must take the Final Exam in one of the examination periods.

Assessment components:

1. Continuous Assessment (40% of the final grade), based on the completion of practical assignments throughout the semester;
2. Final Exam (60% of the final grade), consisting of an individual written examination covering the topics taught during the course.

To pass the course unit, students must obtain a final grade of 9.5 points or higher, as well as a minimum of 50% and 40% in each assessment component, corresponding to 4.0 points in Continuous Assessment and 4.8 points in the Final Exam.

Grade Improvement:

Students may only retake the Final Exame component, corresponding to 60% of the final grade.

Academic fraud involving the authorship and/or completion of assignments or exams:

Doing extra oral exam can be a way to assess things further, whenever needed to clear up doubts or check for possible cheating or plagiarism.

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