Pipe Jacking
Module topics include:
- Overview of pipe jacking process and equipment
- Main and intermediate jacking stations
- Monitoring and control desk
- Separation plant
- Types of shield machines
- Excavation tools
- Obstacle removal
- Pipe jacking errors and their consequences
Jacking pipes
Module topics include:
- Terms and definitions
- Fundamentals
- Reinforced concrete and steel fibre concrete
- Fibre cement
- Vitrified clay
- Glass fibre reinforced plastics – GRP (UP-GF)
- Plastics
Pipe Bursting
Module topics include:
- Workflow
- Material types of protection and product pipelines
- Damage to the product pipe
- Statics
- Modifications of pipe bursting
- Impact of pipe bursting on the surroundings
Open Cut - Embedment and Installation of PIpe
Module topics include:
- Trench Width
- Trench Base
- Embedment
- Pipe Installation and Alignment
- Hydraulically Bound Backfill
- Shoring Removal
- Optimised Installation Methods
- Compaction Testing
High Pressure Cleaning and Cleaning Vehicles
Module topics include:
- Overview of the cleaning process
- Criteria for the selection of the cleaning method
- Process Description
- Combined high pressure cleaning
- Work flow
- Cleaning vehicles
- High pressure pumps
- Vacuum pumps
- High pressure flushing hoses
- Suction tubes
- Optimization of the operating parameters
Solids in Sewers
Module topics include:
- Fundamentals
- Origin of solids
- Transport behaviour of solids
- Consequences of solids entry
Flushing Methods
Module topics include:
- Overview of the cleaning processes
- Criteria for the selection of the cleaning method
- Flushing methods
- Surge flushing
- Back-up flushing
Pipe Cleaning of Large Profiles
Module topics include:
- Manual cleaning using auxiliary tools and devices
- Removal of waste material
- Special cleaning systems
Constructive Design Measures for the Reduction of Deposit
Module topics include:
- Semi-central sedimentation
- Decentralised solid retention
- Catch Basins
Microtunnelling
Module topics include:
- Microtunnelling with auger spoil removal
- Microtunnelling with hydraulic spoil removal
- Microtunnelling with pneumatic spoil removal
- Microtunnelling with scraper spoil removal
- Microtunnelling with soil displacement
- Technical components
- Reduction of jacking forces
- Obstacle removal
Pipe Bursting Basics
Module topics include:
- Pipe bursting standards and regulations
- Process Description
- Pipe bursting variations
- Application limits
- Pneumatic pipe bursting
- Static pipe bursting
- Static/pneumatic pipe bursting
- Hydraulic pipe bursting
- Documentation and quality assurance
Pipe Pullback
Module topics include:
- Description
- Options for the insertion of the new pipeline
- Delivery of the pipeline
- Pulling head
- Changes in length due to temperature variations
- Length of the insertion pit
- Determination of the applicable forces
- Determination of the maximum bending radius
- Interruption of the insertion process
Pipe Cleaning Strategy and Plan
Module topics include:
- Fundamentals
- Context
- Cleaning measures
- Development of the cleaning plan
- Cleaning Strategy
- Optimization of the cleaning effort
- Determination of cleaning intervals
- Goals of a demand and condition oriented cleaning strategy
- Development of a demand and condition oriented cleaning strategy
- Management and monitoring of cleaning measures
Cleaning Nozzles
Module topics include:
- Definition
- Application
- Effects of the pressurised water jet
- Characteristics of the water jet
- Nozzle types
- Nozzle inserts
- Water jet angle
- Water jet force
- Pressure losses
- High pressure flushing hoses
- Suction tubes
- Optimization of the operating parameters
- Number of cleaning cycles
- Damage due to high pressure cleaning
- Practical recommendations for the avoidance of damages due high-pressure cleaning
Pipe Cleaning - Mechanical and Miscellaneous Methods
Module topics include:
- Mechanical methods
- Miscellaneous methods
Cleaning of Pressure Pipelines
Module topics include:
- Physical methods
- Mechanical methods
- Cleaning of inverted siphons
- Recommended fields of application for cleaning methods
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Centre for Advancement of Trenchless Technologies
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Waterloo
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3G1
