1st Edition
Hydraulics of Vacuum Sewerage Systems
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. THEORETICAL BASIS
CHAPTER 3. FLOWS THROUGH VALVES AND SERVICE LATERALS
CHAPTER 4. EMPIRICAL APPROACH TO SIZING OF VACUUM MAINS
CHAPTER 5. CONCEPTUAL AND MECHANISTIC TWO-PHASE FLOW MODELS
CHAPTER 6. SIMULATIONS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS
CHAPTER 7. FORCES ACTING ON PIPELINES
CHAPTER 8. VACUUM PUMP STATION DESIGN
CHAPTER 9. RESEARCH NEEDS AND PROSPECTS
Biography
Ryszard Błażejewski
Born in 1949 in Szczecin (Poland). Education: elementary school , then sanitary equipment technician; academic promotions:
• M.Sc. in irrigation and drainage engineering, 1973, Agricultural University in Poznan (Poland);
• Doctor of technical sciences in hydraulics and engineering hydrology, 1978, Hydro-reclamation Institute, Moscow (USSR);
• habilitated doctor's degree in environmental engineering, 1991 - Cracow University of Technology, (Poland);
• title of professor of technical sciences, 2001.
Research areas: 1973-1991 – energy dissipation and local scour below hydraulic structures, river engineering; after 1991 – rural sanitation, small sewage treatment plants, alternative sewerage systems, two-phase (sedimentation, air-water) and three-phase flows, rainwater management, hydraulics of sewerage devices.
Scientific achievements: author or co-author of approximately 200 articles in journals, 8 books and brochures, 3 patents. Former head of Dept. of Hydraulic and Sanitary Eng. at the Poznan University of Life Sciences, now retired. Supervisor of 9 doctoral theses and 151 master's theses.
Member of the Environmental Engineering Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences, a member of the Committee on Climate, Water Resources and Air Protection at the Great-Poland Branch of the PAS, vice-president for scientific affairs of the Polish Association of Sanitary Engineers and Technicians. Member of editorial teams of the following journals: Communes’ Infrastructure Review, Waterworks and Sewerage, Water Technology.
Radosław Matz
Born in 1976 in Poznan (Poland). Education: elementary school , then refrigeration technician; academic promotions:
• M.Sc. in water and sanitary engineering, 2001, Agricultural University in Poznan (Poland);
• Doctor of agricultural sciences in environmental shaping and engineering, 2006, Faculty of Land Reclamation and Environmental Engineering, Agricultural University in Poznan (Poland);
Research areas: 2001-2010 – technical and economic optimization of sewerage systems in rural areas, evaluation of technical condition of sewerage systems; after 2010 – rural sanitation, alternative sewerage systems, two-phase (air-water) flows, hydraulics of sewerage devices with using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), management and modelling of storm water systems.
Present position: assistant professor at the Dept. of Hydraulic and Sanitary Eng. , Poznan University of Life Sciences.
Scientific achievements: author or co-author of approximately 40 articles in journals, 2 books and brochures, 2 patents. Supervisor of 40 master's theses.
