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Re: EPAnet modeling
Mal Sharkey
Sounds like you are going through some of the usual teething troubles people have when they start to do hydraulic modeling. We should be able to help you out there, but first a couple of questions about your overall design: 1. If you close the pipeline…
over 11 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
Fire fighting Design
Greggmase
Hi all, I am currently involved in the water supply and sewerage system design for a proposed international airport located in East Africa. I'm using WaterCAD for the water supply hydraulic analysis. We are also required to design a separate water…
over 13 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
Spacing of fire hydrants
Amine Salameh
Dear All, I would appreciate your thoughts and advice on the following issue: I have worked on water + fire networks in a quite large number of areas and countries and in each case, the requirement for the fire hydrant spacing was different. In…
over 14 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
Re: Fire fighting Design
Greggmase
Hi Mal Sharkey, Thanks for the tips. I will try to work with a zero base demand and then see what happens. The water we are proposing for fire fighting is clean treated water (chlorinated). We have provided a strainer at the suction pipe, however…
over 13 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
Water modeling - flows passing through a closed pipe
Mike R.
I am attempting to model a connection an existing distribution system. The goal is to supply two houses with drinking water and fill tanks for fire flows. What I have done is brought the water to the housing complex, then one line proceeds to the houses…
over 11 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
Re: Fire fighting Design
Greggmase
Hi Prof Tom Walski, For our case we are using ground level tanks equippped with diesel pumps. We are against Elevated tanks for fire fighting due to the aethetics and the fact that we have some very high buildings (in excess of 12.0 metres). I…
over 13 years ago
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure
OpenFlows | Water Infrastructure Forum
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