Head, Loss and Lift

Water is not lifted because we want it lifted. It is lifted because the ground ran out of fall.

1. 1.1Why Water Needs Help
2. 1.2Anatomy at a Glance
3. 1.3Two Liquids, Two Problem Sets
4. 1.4Flows, Firm Capacity and Redundancy
5. 1.5Reading a Station: Plan, Section, Profile
6. ✓Module 1 examination

Everything after this module is bookkeeping against a single conservation statement.

1. 2.1Bernoulli, Real Fluids, and Where the Energy Goes
2. 2.2EGL and HGL: The Two Lines
3. 2.3Static Head, and Why It Moves
4. 2.4Pressure, Head, and the Units That Cause Accidents
5. 2.5Assembling Total Dynamic Head
6. ✓Module 2 examination

Friction is the tax on every metre of pipe, and it is levied on velocity squared.

1. 3.1Laminar, Turbulent, and Reynolds
2. 3.2Darcy-Weisbach and the Moody Chart
3. 3.3Colebrook, Swamee-Jain, and Choosing f
4. 3.4Hazen-Williams and Its Traps
5. 3.5Aging: Designing for Year Thirty
6. ✓Module 3 examination

Minor" losses are named for long pipelines. Inside a pump station they are the majority.

1. 4.1K Values, and Why Minor Is a Misnomer
2. 4.2Equivalent Length, and Double Counting
3. 4.3Entrances, Exits, and the Velocity Head You Forgot
4. 4.4Valves as Hydraulic Elements
5. 4.5Headers, Manifolds and Unequal Paths
6. ✓Module 4 examination

The profile is where a design stops being a claim and becomes checkable.

1. 5.1What a Profile Is For
2. 5.2Datum, Stationing and Elevations
3. 5.3The Profile Through the Station
4. 5.4The Profile Along the Force Main
5. 5.5Drawing It So a Reviewer Believes It
6. ✓Module 5 examination

A pump does not make pressure. It adds energy, and the system decides what that becomes.

1. 6.1How a Centrifugal Pump Makes Head
2. 6.2Reading a Pump Curve
3. 6.3Pump Types for Sanitary and Potable Duty
4. 6.4Specific Speed and Impeller Shape
5. 6.5NPSH, Cavitation, and Margin
6. 6.6Affinity Laws and Variable Speed
7. ✓Module 6 examination

The pump does not choose the operating point. The intersection does.

1. 7.1The System Curve
2. 7.2The Operating Point, and Why It Moves
3. 7.3Parallel, Series, and the Flow You Do Not Get
4. 7.4BEP, Wear, and the Cost of Running Off-Peak
5. 7.5Energy, Life-Cycle Cost, and What Optimal Means
6. 7.6Diameter Versus Energy: The Classic Trade
7. ✓Module 7 examination

Every element in this module is here because something once failed without it.

1. 8.1The Wet Well
2. 8.2What Arrives With the Water
3. 8.3Suction and Discharge Piping Details
4. 8.4Check and Isolation Valves
5. 8.5Surge: Water Hammer and Protecting the Main
6. 8.6Controls, Power and Safety
7. ✓Module 8 examination