Became Expert Plumbing and Fireprotection system Designer

Explore the plumbing system with pipes, fittings, fixtures, pumps, and control devices that transport fluids. See applications in potable water, heating, drainage, hvac, fire protection, irrigation, gas, and oil systems.

Learn the water supply and distribution system, from collecting source water through transmission, treatment, storage, and distribution to homes, businesses, and irrigation using pumps, pipes, and storage tanks.

This lecture presents four water distribution systems: dead-end artery, grid iron, circular ring, and radial, and explains how each serves different communities, emphasizing the dead-end system’s simplicity and cost-effectiveness.

Explore grid iron distribution systems forming an inter connected grid for reliability in high-demand urban areas, and radial from a central source and circular ring systems for dense zones.

Explain direct water supply, delivering portable water from an underground source to building fixtures via a booster pump, and indirect supply, storing water in a top-of-building tank for distribution.

Explore plumbing fixtures as interface components of the building plumbing system, delivering water and draining waste for drinking, washing, cooking, and sanitation; includes water closets, sinks, and valves.

Explore standard plumbing fixtures, including water closets, urinals, lavatories, kitchen sinks, services sinks, laundry trays, drinking fountains, showers, bathtubs, bits, drain, and emergency fixtures and wash stations.

Learn how to determine fixture flow rates and pressures and select minimum pipe sizes, including bathtubs at 4 gpm and 20 psi, and lavatories at 2 gpm and 8 psi.

Explore how the IPC codes determine minimum plumbing fixture counts by occupancy, covering water closets, urinals, lavatories, and drinking fountains for theaters, nightclubs, auditoriums, educational facilities, factories, and residential buildings.

Explore water storage tanks and how they store water for drinking, irrigation, fire suppression, and chemical manufacturing across residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial settings.

Compare concrete and steel water tanks, noting durability, rust resistance, and thermal mass for insulation in hot and cold climates; discuss size, cost, and installation across above-ground and underground applications.

Compare fibreglass, plastic, and collapsible water tanks for storage across saltwater, chemical-treated water, rainwater, and emergency applications.

Use modular steel tanks built from bolted panels for on-site customization and expansion of water storage, then compare them to elevated tanks that rely on gravity and cost more.

Explore valves as plumbing gadgets that stop and start fluid flow, regulate direction, and relieve pressure, including gate, bell, butterfly, check, needle, diaphragm, and pressure relief valves.

Explore gate and bell valves to understand fluid control in water, oil and gas, and steam systems, including gate valve operation and the quick shut-off of bell valves.

Explore butterfly, check, and needle valves, showing how a butterfly disc throttles flow in hvac and water systems, check valves prevent back flow, and needle valves regulate precisely.

Learn about diaphragm valves with flexible diaphragms for contamination-sensitive industries, offering excellent sealing and resistance to corrosive and abrasive fluids, and pressure relief valves that protect equipment by releasing pressure.

Explore pipes as tubes that transport liquids and gases in plumbing, heating, and industry, detailing metal pipes (steel, copper, aluminum) and plastic pipes (PVC, HDPE, PEX) with advantages and drawbacks.

Explore concrete pipes—cement, aggregate, and water with steel and fiber reinforcement—and their use in sewerage, culverts, and tunnels. Compare clay pipes—fired clay, corrosion resistance, long life, brittleness, and installation costs.

Explore volumetric flow rate, total head, hydraulic power, and vacuum pressure while learning how dynamic and displacement pumps move liquids from low to high pressure.

Explore dynamic pumps, where rotary blade motion adds energy to fluid, converting it into pressure through the pump casing, including centrifugal, radial, and axial pump types.

Explore how positive displacement pumps create suction by expanding the cavity and discharge by collapsing it, focusing on external and internal gear pumps and their performance traits.

Explore screw pumps, a type of positive displacement pump with intermeshing screws that trap and move fluid along the axis, handling low to high viscosity and fluids containing solids.

Explore low pumps, a non-contact, two-lobe positive displacement pump with independent shafts, offering gentle handling of viscous, shear-sensitive fluids in food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic applications.

Calculate per person water needs by purpose, totaling 135 liters daily for residential use, with breakdowns for drinking, cooking, breathing, flushing, washing clothes, utensils, and gardening.

Explore how to use an Excel sheet to calculate daily water consumption across residential, commercial, office, hotels, and other buildings, using per person, per bed, and per area metrics.

Calculate tank size by counting the building's people and multiplying by the per-person daily water consumption, then divide the total liters by 28.8 to convert to cubic feet.

Compute pump horsepower by evaluating total dynamic head, including vertical lift and pipe friction, then determine the required gpm from dwelling units and water supply fixture units.

Calculate pump horsepower by measuring flow rate, vertical distance, pipe length, and friction losses to determine total dynamic head, then apply the water horsepower formula to obtain motor horsepower.

Explain minor and major losses in piping, using loss coefficients for valves, elbows, and reducers to calculate friction losses and total head loss from flow.

Use pipe flow expert, a professional tool for plumbing design engineers to analyze water systems and calculate head losses, flow rate, velocities, Reynolds number, and friction factors.

Design a water supply network in Pipe Flow Expert by placing a water reservoir and three elevated tanks, then calculate flow rates and determine pipe sizes.

Size water supply pipes from reservoir to tanks using pipe flow expert and pipe sizer, selecting data, materials, and lengths to meet 1200 gpm with acceptable head loss and velocity.

Model a water supply system using pipe flow expert by defining pipe entries, installing a 1200 gpm pump, calculating head, and reviewing results with valves and fittings.

Learn how fire protection systems detect, contain, extinguish, and prevent fire spread in buildings. Distinguish active systems—detectors, alarms, suppression, sprinklers—from passive systems—fire resistant walls, doors, dampers, coatings—that partition spaces.

Add flow control valves to regulate pipe flow, set a target of 400 gpm, and insert fittings such as elbows, bands, a strainer, and eight inch gate valves.

Identify the five fire classes: A, B, C, D, and K, by burning material. Apply wet based sprinkler systems for class A and use non-conductive extinguishing agents for class C.

Classify occupancy into light hazard, ordinary hazard 1 and 2, and extra hazard 1 and 2, with examples like churches and aircraft hangars, per NFPA 13 guidelines.

Explore how a fire sprinkler system uses networked pipes and sprinkler heads to discharge water when a predetermined temperature is exceeded, activating automatically to control fire spread.

Explore four fire protection system types: wet pipe, dry pipe, deluge, and pre-action, and their temperature and application contexts in buildings.

The wet pipe sprinkler system keeps all pipes filled with water, with main and branch pipes and hangers, delivering water when heat opens a sprinkler head.

Learn about dry pipe systems for cold climates, where pipes are air-filled and water fills the system only after a sprinkler is heated.

Understand the deluge sprinkler system, a high-hazard fire protection with open heads, heat or smoke detectors, and a control panel that opens the deluge valve to flood all piping rapidly.

Explain the pre-action sprinkler system as a hybrid of deluge and dry pipe, where pipes stay dry until detectors release water to open heads when heated.

Explore sprinkler heads, their types (upright, pendant, side wall, recessed), and key parts like deflector and cap, with notes on fused heads for single use.

Learn to read sprinkler head temperature ratings, classifications, and color coding from the table; link glass bulb color and deflector to ordinary, intermediate, high, and ultra high types.

Fire pumps increase water pressure for sprinkler and hydrant systems, drawing from city mains or storage. They are UL/ULC/FM listed, NFPA guided, and powered by electric, diesel, or steam turbines.

Explain the arrangement of electric, diesel standby, and jockey pumps in a fire protection system, including gate and check valves, flexible connectors, pressure gauge, and water reservoir.

Explore the components of fire protection pumps, including pressure gauges, relief valves, gate and check valves, flexible connectors, os&y valves, jockey pumps, pressure switches, and diesel and electric pumps.

Explain how a jockey pump maintains sprinkler pressure alongside main fire pump and starts automatically when pressure drops; size at 1% of main fire pump flow and 10 psi more.

Explore how fire pumps raise water pressure for sprinkler and standpipe systems, powered by electric, diesel, or steam and tested by UL, ULC, or FME to protect life.

Explore fire pump types for protection systems, including horizontal split case, vertical inline, suction, and vertical turbine pumps. Highlight the horizontal split case (HSC) pump benefits, their flow and head ranges, electric or diesel drive, and drawbacks like large floor space and higher cost.

Review vertical inline, end suction, and vertical turbine fire pumps, detailing their flow ranges, installation needs, and drive options for fire protection and hydrant systems.

Learn FM and UL pump requirements, including packing seals on five pumps; ULC allows mechanical seals. Packing glands require adjustment and replacement as they harden, with 30 drips per minute.

Explore using a pipe flow expert software to analyze a fire protection and sprinkler system, calculate head losses, and design parallel pumps, tanks, and piping networks.

Master 2-pipe flow for FPS by placing diesel, jockey, and electric pumps, setting flow rates in US gpm, and selecting valves and pipe diameters.

Learn to model the main pipeline in 3D, switch to isometric view, and add three elevated branches with nodes, each three meters above.

Explore Revit MEP introduction, set up a new plumbing file with templates and units, size pipes using Pipe Flow Expert, and learn to link or import files.

Learn to design an indirect plumbing system with a rooftop water tank, calculate total water use, size the tank, and supply hot and cold water with pump head and horsepower.

Load and place bathtubs and water closets from the plumbing panel, then resize them in each washroom. Copy, paste, and align fixtures to the two levels for realistic 3d visualization.

Use the M60 pipe sizer design tool to select pipe size and material based on fixture units and total GPM, then evaluate head loss and fluid velocity against standard limits.

Calculate water tank size and place a vertical storage tank on rooftop at level four, then edit the tank family to set the inlet and outlet and load it.

Compute tank size for a 30-person building by using 135 liters per person per day to obtain 4.05 m³, convert to cubic feet, and determine tank height, area, and diameter.

Calculate tank volume from area times height using circle area pi/4 d^2, adjust height and diameter for a 1000-gallon tank, converting 135 people's daily use from liters to gallons.

Place and size a water heater by loading its family, selecting mechanical equipment, and setting a 100 gallon capacity for roof placement with cold in, hot out, and electrical connection.

Select and edit connector families, adjust extrusion sizes, and add pipe connectors to create hot and cold water connections for sinks, while changing project units to inches and overwriting updates.

Edit and load domestic cold water supply system, place water tank, and route drop pipes to geysers and fixtures across first and second floors in plan and 3D views.

Connect cold water supply lines to the main pipeline by selecting pipes, dropping pipes, and creating sections, then adjust in 3d view to ensure all fixtures are properly joined.

Design and route hot water supply from the water heater to bathtubs and sinks, using sections, drop pipes, and 3d view to join pipes and verify hot water distribution.