Hydraulic laboratory
Basic specification:
Total floor area of the laboratories including offices, workshops and supporting labs | 1640 m2 |
Floor area of the main hydraulic laboratory | 1032 m2 |
Floor area for indoor hydraulic models | 350 m2 |
Max. discharge | 0,7 m3/s |
Reservoirs volume | 800 m3 |
Gravitational system with total head of | 10 m |
Laboratory equipment:
Permanent hydraulic flumes:
| Qmax [l/s] | L [m] | B [m] | H [m] | bottom slope | material of the wall |
Flume A | 500 | 15 | 1 | 1 (2) | fixed 0 % | glass |
Flume B | 150 | 8 | 0.5 | 0.75 | tilting up to 7.5 % | glass |
Flume C | 200 | 6 | 1,5 | 0,6 | tilting up to 16 % | glass |
Flume D | 50 | 6 | 0,25 | 0,5 (1) | fixed 0 % | glass |
Pipe A | 60 | 17 | DN 290 | - | tilting up to 5 % | plexiglass |
Pipe B | 30 | 17 | DN 150 | - | tilting up to 5 % | glass |
Flumes are equipped with measuring weirs, orifices and specifically with MID flowmeters.
Sedimentation, filtration and fluidized columns including recirculation system for suspensions and aggressive fluids:
| n | DN [mm] | L [m] | material |
A | 3 | 200 | 2 | glass |
B | 2 | 200 | 3 | glass |
C | 2 | 200 | 4 | glass |
D | 8 | 100 | 3-4 | glass |
Temporary hydraulic models:
- swirl and vortex separator, outflow regulators
- combined sewer overflow models
- fluvial channel models
- models of hydraulic structures
- models of water turbines
Additional equipment:
- crane (3,5 t)
- aeration systems
- suspension mixed tanks
Equipment for hydraulic quantities measurement:
Discharge:
- flowmeters MID KROHNE 200, 150, 50
- mass flowmeter KROHNE - Corimass
- ultrasonic flowmeter KROHNE - pressurized flow
- measuring weirs, measuring orifices
Flow velocity and turbulence:
Water depth:
- ultrasonic water level gauges Pepperl-Fuchs
- point gauge
- digital point gauge
Pressure::
- differential and absolute pressure transducers Hottinger Baldwin
- amplifier SPIDER - Hottinger Baldwin
Signal analysis:
Data acquisition: