• Re: EPAnet modeling

    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…
  • Fire fighting Design

    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…
  • Spacing of fire hydrants

    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…
  • Re: Fire fighting Design

    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…
  • Water modeling - flows passing through a closed pipe

    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…
  • Re: Fire fighting Design

    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…