Related: RGTU/RGPV Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering syllabus, RGTU/RGPV CE Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering syllabus, BE CE 6th semester Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering Syllabus CIVIL Engineering
CE-602 Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering Syllabus
RGTU/RGPV Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering SYLLABUS
CIVIL Engineering CE 6th Semester Syllabus
Branch: Civil Engineering VI Semester
Course: CE602 Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering.
Unit-I Hydrology : Hydrological cycle, precipitation and its measurement, recording and non recording rain gauges, estimating missing rainfall data, raingauge net works, mean depth of precipitation over a drainage area, mass rainfall curves, intensity-duration curves, depth-area duration curves, Infiltration and infiltration indices, evaporation stream gauging, run off and its estimation, hydrograph analysis, unit hydrograph and its derivation from isolated and complex storms, S-curve hydrograph, synthetic unit hydrograph.
Unit-II Floods and Ground water: Types of floods and their estimation by different methods, probability and frequency analysis, flood routing through reservoirs and channels, flood control measures, economics of flood control, confined and unconfined aquifers, aquifer properties, hydraulics of wells under steady flow conditions, infiltration galleries. Ground water recharge-necessity and methods of improving ground water storage. Water logging-causes, effects and its prevention. Salt efflorescence-causes and effects. reclamation of water logged and salt affected lands.
Unit-III Water resources planning and management : Planning of water resources projects, data requirements, economic analysis of water resources projects appraisal of multipurpose projects, optimal operation of projects-introuduction to linear programming and its application to water resources projects. Role of water in the environment, rain water harvesting, impact assessment of water resources development and managerial measures.
Unit - IV Irrigation water requirement and soil-water-crop relationship: Irrigation, definition, necessity, advantages and disadvantages, types and methods. Irrigation development.
Soils - types and their occurrence, suitability for irrigation purposes, wilting coefficient and field capacity, optimum water supply, consumptive use and its determination. Irrigation methods-surface and subsurface, sprinkler and drip irrigation. Duty of water, factors affecting duty and methods to improve duty, suitability of water for irrigation, crops and crop seasons, principal crops and their water requirement, crop ratio and crop rotation, intensity of irrigation.
Unit - V Canal irrigation: Types of canals, alignment, design of unlined and lined canals, Kennedy’s and Lacey’s silt theories, typical canal sections, canal losses, lininings-objectives, materials used, economics. Canal falls & cross drainage works, - description and design, head and cross regulators. escapes and outlets,
canal transitions.
Well irrigation: Types of wells, well construction, yield tests, specific capacity level and specific yield, hydraulic design of open wells and tube wells, methods of raising well water, characteristics of pumps and their selection, interference of wells, well losses, advantages and disadvantages of well irrigation.
CE 602 Water Resources and Irrigation Engineering Suggested Books :-
1. Engg. Hydrology - J.NEMEC - Prentice Hall
2. Hydrology for Engineers Linsley, Kohler, Paulnus - Tata Mc.Graw Hill.
3. Engg. Hydrology by K. Subhramanya - Tata Mc Graw Hills Publ. Co.
4. Hydrology & Flood Control by Santosh Kumar - Khanna Publishers
5. Engg. Hydrology by H.M. Raghunath
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon