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What Happens When the Pressure Gets Really Low?

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Tom Walski

There are several reasons. First, the pressure is so high and constant in water systems in most developed countries that...

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Variable Speed Pumps vs. Constant Speed Pumps

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Tom Walski

The most common question in pump selection these days is whether to use variable or constant-speed pumps.

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Gravity vs. Pressure Sewers – Who Wins?

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Tom Walski

One of the most fundamental decisions made in wastewater collection system design is choosing between a gravity or pressure sewer...

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Law of Conservation of Ca (Rational Method version)

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Tom Walski

We all know that as two flows meet, according to the Law of Conservation of Mass, the resulting flow will...

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The Law of Conservation of Fixture Units

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Tom Walski

The fixture unit method (in some places called fixture value method) was developed by Roy B. Hunter from the US...

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Connecting Upstream/Downstream Systems: The Right Way vs. Ways Different People Do It

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Tom Walski

In a pipe network, all elements are connected such that changing anything at any location impacts the entire network. Adding...

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Fun with the Navier-Stokes Equations

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Tom Walski

They are nonlinear, partial differential equations which are about the worst kinds of equations to solve. About the only things...

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Garbage In, Garbage Out

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Tom Walski

The problem was that the people who developed the data underlying the GIS/CAD (I’ll call it GIS in this blog)...

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Books

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Tom Walski

When I would walk into an engineering office (before the pandemic), I would be concerned by the lack of books...

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Part 2: Beyond Hydraulics – Real World Water and Sewer System Design

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Tom Walski

The exact right-of-way for a pipe or land acquisition for a tank or pump station is not generally considered in...

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Part 1: Beyond Hydraulics – Real World Water and Sewer System Design

By
Tom Walski

This blog series attempts to present some important considerations in system design that are important but generally are overlooked in...

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Wave Speed for Transient Analysis

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Tom Walski

One of the most important inputs to transient analysis is the speed of the pressure wave (called celerity) moving through...

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