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Course Synopsis
Content General:
Sewer CAD® modelling software can be used from urban sewer planning, to overflow remediation analysis, to detailed network design achieving high degree of professional work. Sewer CAD is an easy-to-use sanitary sewer modelling and design software product that thousands of municipalities, utilities, and engineering firms around the world trust to design, analyze, and plan waste-water collection systems. Engineers can model both pressurized force mains and gravity hydraulics with ease, using steady-state analysis with various standard peaking factors, and extended-period simulations. Out of the box, Sewer CAD users can employ this product as a stand-alone application or work directly within Micro Station® while an addition integration option lets them model within Auto CAD. The stand-alone interface offers easy-to-use model layout tools, multiple background support, conversion utilities from CAD, GIS, and databases, and unlimited undo and redo layout.
Gravity and Pressure Hydraulics
Engineers can analyze pressure or free surface flow conditions using a robust gradually varied, standard-step algorithm in Sewer CAD for solving sub-critical, critical, and super-critical conditions, and complex composite profiles. The steady-state simulation analyzes the system under extreme flow conditions. Automated design features are available with a steady-state analysis type to find cost-effective sewer designs. The extended period simulations (EPS) allow modellers to visualize how the system behaves over time. Results can be animated through time to locate hydraulic jumps and surcharging sections.
Waste-water Loading Allocation and Estimation, and Infiltration and Inflow
The Load Builder™ module included in Sewer CAD helps engineers allocate sewer loads based on a variety of GIS-based sources such as customer water use billing data, area-wide flow measurement, or polygons with known population or land use. Sewer loading in Sewer CAD also can be applied as user-defined hydro graphs, pattern-based loads, and unit loads. Modellers can use totally customizable unit load libraries to estimate sanitary flows based on contributing population, service area, total dry weather discharge, or their own customized loading types. Sewer CAD also includes numerous per-defined extreme flow factor formulas and tables or lets users enter their own formulas and tables. Sewer CAD determines infiltration in gravity pipes, based on pipe length, length diameter, surface area, count value, or user-defined data. Sewer CAD can also use multiple flow patterns or flow hydro-graphs for EPS. The sanitary load control center and inflow control center make it easy to globally edit or edit a filtered set of elements.
Automatic Design of New Systems and Rehabilitation of Existing Sanitary Sewers
The constraint-based design features in Sewer CAD allow modellers to automatically design gravity piping and structures. The design is flexible enough to allow users to specify the elements to be designed, from a single pipe size to the entire system, or anything in between, by simply entering their design restrictions: minimum and maximum velocities, covers and slopes; pipe and manhole matching offsets; and allow (or not) drop structures. Sewer CAD will automatically determine cost-effective pipe sizes and invert elevations, avoiding unnecessary pipe trench excavation.
Comprehensive Scenario Management
The Sewer CAD Scenario Management Center gives engineers full control to configure, run, evaluate, visualize, and compare an unlimited number of what-if scenarios within a single file. Engineers can easily make decisions by comparing unlimited scenarios, analyzing rehabilitation alternatives for multiple planning horizons, and evaluating pump operation strategies, or overflow scenarios with varying future waste-water flows. Sewer CAD is an easy-to-use sanitary sewer modelling and design software product that thousands of municipalities, utilities, and engineering firms around the world trust to design, analyze, and plan waste-water collection systems. Engineers can model both pressurized force mains and gravity hydraulics with ease, using steady-state analysis with various standard peaking factors, and extended-period simulations.
These intensive hands on course will help participants learn to:
1. Plan and construct sewer systems models for real world challenges
2. Determine sanitary loads using unit loads loading patterns and peak factors
3. Learn to detect and correct inefficiencies in existing sewer systems
4. Model gravity flow pressure systems and force mains
5. Address wet weather inflow concerns
Duration: This is a three day course with hands on computer workshop
Course Material: Course includes special hardcover 600 page handbooks with a 25 pipe version of Sewer CAD CD Rom, installation instructions, Sewer CAD user guide, and course exam booklet to be submitted for grading and continuing education units.
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