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S01 – Introduction: Why urban drainage? Types and flows

Course subject(s) S01 – Introduction: Why urban drainage? Types and flows

In this lecture, prof. Clemens introduces the lectures on Urban drainage / Sewerage.
This lecture deals with the general aspects of designing urban drainage infrastructure. He starts with the history of urban drainage, and he explans the function and goal of sewerage systems. Thereafter, he discusses the different types of sewer systems (combined, separated, improved separated, pressurized, vacuum), and describes the different components of sewer systems.
The latter part of his lecture deals with the design criteria for sewer systems (maximum flow, overflow frequency).

Introduction: urban drainage systems and flows

Content

Slides

Video

Course intro
Why a sewer system?
History
Function and goal of sewerage
Types of sewer systems
Components of a sewer system (part)
1 –   3
4 –   8
9 – 13
14 – 15
16 – 20
21 – 23
00:00
03:35
08:52
17:18
21:05
29:12
Components of a sewer system (cont.)
Vacuum sewer
Combined versus seperate sewer sytems
Design criteria for sewers
Design principles
Further info
24 – 28
29 – 30
31 – 37
38 – 41
42 – 49
50
43:47
61:17
65:36
82:17
86:55
92:30
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