Online course on Urban Drainage and Sewerage.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

describe the inputs, outputs and functioning of urban drainage/sewerage systems;
appraise urban drainage and wastewater management problems in global cities;
describe the standard practice in designing urban drainage systems and develop simple drainage system designs;
explain the elements of an urban drainage/sewerage hydraulics/water-quality model;
describe the elementary hydraulic/hydrological processes involved in the urban drainage systems and recommend their appropriate applications;
construct a simple model for analysis of hydraulics and water quality of a drainage system; interpret simple model results and use them for decision making in design, renewal and upgrading systems.

Urban drainage and Sewerage (UDS) systems: purpose, types and historical development, system components and layout;
Urban drainage/sewerage (input) types and characterization;
Sources and characteristics of storm water drainage and sewerage, drainage engineering services;
Quantification of Inputs: rainfall and surface runoff, rainfall-runoff transformation, rainfall frequency analysis, extreme values and design storms, waste water generation;
Hydraulics of drainage systems: pipe/channel flow, unsteady hydraulics, pumping stations;
Modelling of urban drainage hydraulics: modelling principles, modelling tools, application of SWMM model;
Urban Drainage Design: sewer system layout, approaches to urban drainage system design, design criteria, sewer design calculations;
Special topics in urban drainage and sewerage: road drainage, alternative drainage systems; /low-cost sewerage systems (topics vary by year).