Understanding Water Hammer Part II

This course helps you develop your engineering judgment about Water Hammer phenomena in industrial piping systems and is Part II in our Understanding Water Hammer series. The focus of the course goes beyond explaining the underlying theory of Water Hammer (or Pressure Surge) to show how the characteristics of Water Hammer are determined in real-life situations. Participants are taken through worked examples based on projects, where the instructors use surge analysis software to visualise and compare Water Hammer load cases.

First you will learn about the use of Orifice Plates to reduce the effect of pressure surge and how to balance between their postive effects in a dynamic situation and the pressure loss they generate in the static situation. The impact of pressure losses due to bends, tees, valves and buried piping on Water Hammer is the next topic and here use will be made of an example based on a Firewater System The final module will see you looking at different mitigation measures for Water Hammer and Pressure Surge events, and take you through worked examples of a Sprinkler System.