Unit
- Course
- Building engineering and architecture
- Study-unit Code
- A006589
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Silvia Meniconi
- Teachers
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- Bruno Brunone (Codocenza)
- Silvia Meniconi
- Hours
- 10 ore (Codocenza) - Bruno Brunone
- 35 ore - Silvia Meniconi
- CFU
- 5
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2026/27
- Learning activities
- A scelta dello studente
- Area
- A scelta dello studente
- Sector
- CEAR-01/A
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Management of water distribution system:
modellling of water distribution systems (WDSs),
ARERA regulations
Distribution and transmission system valves
Transient design for pipeline systems
Techniques for management of WDSs including the design of DIscrict Metered Areas (DMAs)
Techniques for fault detection and leakage management
Design of fountains and swimming pools, Flow through porous media, Filters
Water landscape design
Water architecture
PAI regulation, hazard maps, floodplains - Reference texts
- Notes of the teachers distributed during the course.
Mays, L.W. (2000). Water Distribution Systems Handbook, McGraw-Hill.
B. Brunone, M. Ferrante, S. Meniconi, Manuale per una moderna gestione degli acquedotti, Ricerca e controllo delle perdite nelle reti di condotte, Città Studi Edizioni, De Agotsini, 2008.
K. A. Breisch, Fountains: Splash and Spectacle, Thames and Hudson, London 1998.
H. Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau, K. H.C. Ludwig, Waterscapes: Planen, Bauen und Gestalten Mit Wasser, Basel 2001.
E. Di Franco, Rubinetti. Il design della migliore produzione, Motta Editore, Milano 2003.
H. Kinkade-Levario, Design for Water: Rainwater Harvesting, Stormwater Catchement, and Alternate Water Resuse, New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island 2007.
A. Lohrer, Basics Designing with Water, Birkhäuser, Basel 2008.
H. Dreiseitl, Dieter Grau, Recent Waterscapes: Planning, Building and Designing with Water, Birkhäuser, Basel 2009.
J. Jain-Neubauer, Water Design: Environment and Histories, Marg Publications, Mumbai 2016.
P. Cavagneri, Maria Adriana Giusti, Roberto Revelli, Scienza Idraulica e restauro dei giardini, Celid, Torino 2009.
D. Citrini, G. Noseda, Idraulica, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano, 2012. - Educational objectives
- Attention will be focused not only on the Hydraulics aspects but also on those related to energy saving for both transmission mains and water distribution networks. Furthermore, techniques for the management of water distribution systems and techniques for fault detection and leakage management will be analyzed. These topics will be discussed in the context of Italian and international ground rules.
A further aim of the course is to provide students with the tools to design and verify devices used in the water industry. The design of pools and fountains will be faced up, also in terms of their sustainability. In such a context, the course will make students aware of the experimental methods in fluid mechanics - applicable to the Water Landscape Design and Water Architecture -to conjugate the rational approach with the needs of a modern and functional design in which water flow plays a crucial role. - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand and apply most of the topics explained during the course, you must have successfully passed FONDAMENTI DI WATER DESIGN and Infrastrastrutture Idrauliche Urbane.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- lectures on all the topics of the course;
- exercises about all the practical topics discussed during the course;
- laboratory tests at the Water Engineering Laboratory of the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile ed Ambientale (https://welabpg.com) ;
- a case study will be analyzed by students in groups
For all topics, the strong links between theory and practical engineering problems are pointed out. - Other information
- As additional teaching activity, students will execute tests at the Water
Engineering Laboratory (WEL). Specifically,
tests will be carried out in pressurized pipes; a design of a fountain will be executed. Moreover plant visits will be organized. - Learning verification modality
- The exam is oral with the discussion of the case-study.
- Extended program
- Management of water distribution system:
modellling of water distribution systems (WDSs),
ARERA regulations
Distribution and transmission system valves
Transient design for pipeline systems
Techniques for management of WDSs including the design of DIscrict Metered Areas (DMAs)
Techniques for fault detection and leakage management
Design of fountains and swimming pools, Flow through porous media, Filters
Water landscape design
Water architecture
PAI regulation, hazard maps, floodplains - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Questo insegnamento concorre alla realizzazione degli obiettivi ONU dell'Agenda 2030 per lo Sviluppo Sostenibile