TSHWANE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Reticulation Design & Management (RDA401T)
2019 ASSIGNMENT – 1

Submission due: 22nd August 2019. 4:00pm

Student name: ........................................................... Student number: ..................................

Instructions:
§ Answer all questions.
§ No rough required.
§ Do not write with a red pen or a pencil.
§ Show all units.
§ No units or wrong units = no marks.
§ Assume g = 9,81 m/s2.
§ Give all answers to 3 significant digits.

1) A pipeline 20 km long delivers water from an impounding reservoir to a service reservoir, the
minimum difference in level between which is 100 m. The pipe of uncoated cast iron (k = 0.3
mm) is 400 mm in diameter. Local losses, including entry loss, and velocity head amount to
10V2⁄2g.

(a) Calculate the minimum uncontrolled discharge to the service reservoir.

(b) What additional head loss would need to be created by a valve to regulate the discharge
to 160 L/s? [20]

2) Water flows from one large reservoir to another via a pipeline which is 0.9 m in diameter, 15km
long, and for which f = 0.04. The difference in height between the water surface levels in the
two reservoirs is 50m.
(a) Ignoring the minor losses in the pipeline, calculate the flow rate between the two reservoirs.
(b) Assuming that the pipeline entrance and exit are sharp and that the minor losses are as in
Table 1, calculate the discharge now. What is the difference between the answers to parts (a)
and (b)? [15]

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3) A service reservoir, A, delivers water through a trunk pipeline ABC to the distribution network
having inlets at B and C.
Pipe AB: length = 1000 m; diameter = 400 mm; k = 0.06 mm
Pipe BC: length = 600 m; diameter = 300 mm; k = 0.06 mm

The water surface elevation in the reservoir is 110 m o.d. Determine the maximum permissible
outflow at B such that the pressure head elevation at C does not fall below 90.0 m o.d. Neglect
losses other than friction, entry and velocity head. Outflow at C = 160 L/s. [15]