Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Thomas Hennings
02/12/2024
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Good introductory to this topic.
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William Thomas James
01/26/2024
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Interesting use of the Hazen-Williams formula, the software was very useful. And it helped quickly conceptualize what was happening with physical changes.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Thomas Stowe
07/18/2023
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Good course. Definitely made me think a little. The hydraulic Calc program worked great.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
William Chandler
05/12/2023
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Very good basic course to show how the Hazen-Williams Formula works to solve common water flow in pipes problems
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Lisa Bass
04/14/2023
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Loved the examples!
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yok
02/21/2023
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I enjoyed it. Refreshed my understanding
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Igor Vassiliev
02/07/2023
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A very good refresher for the use of Hazen-Williams's formula.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
RANDALL PETKUS
01/29/2023
Excellent examples of how to use the Hazen Williams Formula to determine the various water flow parameters in pipes. Spreadsheet is great tool, and I will probably use it to help determine water service sizes for my future site plan projects.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Donald Rowe
01/22/2023
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Good exercise in using the calculator
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
John Raleigh
12/01/2022
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Good course, Good examples of the use of Hazen=Williams Formula
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Millard Powledge
11/14/2022
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Outstanding!! Easy to use and a great what if tool. Thanks so much!
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Duc Nguyen
07/21/2022
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I learn a lot through using Hydro-Calc Using Hazen & William Formula. The course is very interesting with all samples of calculation. I have a good chance to learn more about Water Flow calculation. Thank you!
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John Evans
06/28/2022
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"Hydro-calc" spreadsheet easily worth the price of course. Very useful in several applications.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
05/27/2022
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Very good spreadsheet and examples.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Lorenzo Casanova
05/20/2022
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Excellent Examples. And just to the point. I highly recommend it!!!
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Arthur LeBlanc
05/16/2022
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I gave this course the highest rating not only for the information conveyed but also for the method of conveyance. Using detailed, real-life type problems for illustration as well as for practice and testing, while using the included software, my interest and comprehension were enhanced.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Eric A. Urstadt
05/03/2022
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Good Course and calculator
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Eric A Schott
04/25/2022
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Nice simple and informative
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes - Course #050
Walter David Bruce
04/14/2022
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Course #050 is practical and useful, and I recommend the software as a tool for all engineers. I enjoyed reviewing the cattle watering example and the sprinkler system design for the farmer's garden. For the calculations, It would be helpful to have a macro button to allow the user to clear all fields between calculations. It would be good to develop the software further to allow branch flow calculations.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Robert Hendricks
04/13/2022
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Takes a little extra time to manipulate the code and as and engineer to resolve what it is doing to assist one. Good job, well written
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Syed Ahmed
04/08/2022
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The course was a delight to take. It makes you think critically and use your knowledge and thinking skill to solve the questions
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Tim Carpenter
04/08/2022
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The course was excellent. I work with water flow every day, and this course helped define the framework more clearly in my mind, and gave me a great excel tool which i can use.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Wendell Smith
04/06/2022
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Excellent tool and course.
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FJM
04/04/2022
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Excellent examples of how to apply Hazen Williams, using realistic scenarios.
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Andrew Bieber
01/03/2022
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Solid course giving several real examples of how the Hazen & Williams Formula can be applied.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Cameron Campbell
12/19/2021
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All examples were very well explained, using simple real world scenarios. The Excel spreadsheet is very easy to use. I also used external H-W calculators to validate all of the example solutions.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
david c hughes
12/10/2021
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A course very well presented. It was beneficial in that it required you to use some outside reference material not used in a long time. Explanation of incorrect answers is very good. Look forward to taking additonal courses in the future
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Stephen Ballentine
12/02/2021
Great course, test, and spreadsheet. Great sample problems.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
John K
11/22/2021
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Good refresher with real examples that force the use of the software in a variety of ways. A suggested upgrade is to bring in valve, fitting, and instrument losses to make the examples even more applicable. Overall a really good course, though.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Thomas Edward Raihl
07/19/2021
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Very thorough and practical course in applied hydraulics
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Very good refresher and the excel sheet is very useful.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Jimmy Unwala, PE
04/14/2021
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Very good and well covered course. The H/W formula calculator is a big help. A good practical course for a consulting mechanical/electrical engineer like myself.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Jackie E. Smith PE
04/12/2021
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I don't work with water flow much and I use Mathcad in most of my calculations so this course was hard for me (which is good ). I went into the course not wanting to rely totally on the Hydro-Calc tool to solve the equations but solving Hazen-Williams with Mathcad is a disaster if you let MathCad take care of the units. I found it easier to use my TI Nspire and Excel until I got comfortable with Hazen-Williams. I have an old Schaums that has some H-W problems in it that I practiced on then I started using the Hydro-Calc which I really liked. I got one question wrong on the test that I reworked on H-C and I don't know how I got it wrong. I give the course a solid 5 star.
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Kristopher Berthold
04/09/2021
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Good overview of pipe flow with many real life examples both in the course and in the problems to solve. The spreadsheet calculator is very well designed and simple to use.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Ralph Charles Wright
04/05/2021
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Excellent course as I size and trouble shoot water supply lines. I gained a great line sizing program and methodology.
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Learned much about an area I was not familiar with. The spreadsheet was superb in fostering understanding of how to select and input key parameters, and how the resulting outputs and results were related.
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frank Foreback
03/20/2021
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good review for basic hydraulics, there are more advance software out there, however, the fundamentals are well covered in this course
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Fred Curnutt
03/13/2021
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Very good
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Good basic review of the subject.
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Joseph S Johnson
03/10/2021
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Good informative course. Good Hydro-calc
program.
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James L Martin
03/10/2021
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I enjoy excel spreadsheets and the Hydro-Tool was very interesting and helpful especially solving the test questions; it beats a 70’s slide rule and tables hands down.
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John Pappas
03/09/2021
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Good Review of basics. Problems gave good description of clients needs for evaluation by engineer. Spreadsheet concise.
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Review of: Water Flow in Pipes
Bruce Robinson
02/21/2021
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This course was very useful in reviewing/relearning how to calculate flow in pipes and provided software that I will use going forward. Clear, concise, useful, and challenging enough to make you think.
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Rolando L Nieves
02/01/2021
Great calculations practice.
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DAVID STROUD
01/24/2021
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This was a very well prepared course that made you think about all the variables that are involved with hydraulic flow problems. The included software (in Excel) also helped show all the variables and how they relate to each other.
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Jamie Birmingham
12/29/2020
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good course, diverse questions, excel calculator is great. thank you
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Good refresher course
Good refresher course, handy spreadsheet.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
William Povall
11/23/2020
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Course was hands on and informative.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
09/21/2020
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Although the information and the software are very good the problems could be more explanitory if there were diagrams of the problem to accompany the text. Some of us are very visual learners.
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Hudson C. Haile
07/08/2020
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First time I have used the hydro-calc tool. What a great improvement. Thank you. I didn't use it in the most efficient manner, but will email Bill with questions.
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Paul MacPherson
05/15/2020
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Great course and excellent review. I really liked the Hydro-Calc tool.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
While it was great to learn about the Hydro-Calc tool, it would have been nice to have a little more of an instructive narrative in the course document rather than just sample problems. That being said, it was fun navigating the exam with the tool... it really made me think!
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Jorge Ledon
04/09/2020
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Excellent course in refreshing old technical formulas and achieving calculations.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Good review of Hazen Williams and the included calculation tool was helpful.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
12/28/2019
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Good additional tool for design
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Patrick Mudd
12/18/2019
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The course gives me an additional tool to use to analyze pipe systems.
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The material presented in the course provides a thought provoking opportunity to use the Hazen-Williams included software. If needed, the software will be a welcome addition to the solution methods needed for solving this type of problem.
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William Cor
11/16/2019
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Good reference for something I work with often.
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George Armistead
09/13/2019
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Very practical course for planning water delivery projects. The examples and softwate were easy to follow and utilize.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
John Fleming
08/25/2019
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Definitely one of the better courses I have taken. Well thought out. Solid course.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Philip Bisesi
07/27/2019
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Course has very good examples on different problems that Hazen-Williams can solve.
The program helps solving quickly.
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Robert Sturgill
07/10/2019
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In the problems pipe entrance and exit losses are not accounted for (e.g. pool problem). While these losses tend to be small in many cases, sometime they are not. By including these I believe you could improve the course.
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David Smith
04/22/2019
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I enjoyed the coarse. It was my first exposure the the Hazen & Wiliams formula.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
04/08/2019
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Good basic information. Examples were real world.
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Camille Dominguez Gonzalez
02/24/2019
Excellent
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William Howe
02/18/2019
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Bravo! I was dreading finally getting back for a refresher on basic hydraulics after many years away. I'm glad this is the continuing ed. I pushed off to the end. It was so much fun Tinkering with very real world sample problem situations and permutations, that I would have been very dissatisfied with many of the other courses I've endured this biennium. Great Approach. This kind of quick analysis of several optional design variations, and the associated sensitivity feedback that comes with it, is what helps the science and the engineering become intuitive.
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Alex A
01/23/2019
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excellent course with a very useful spreadsheet....I recommend this course
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Ronald Rice
12/31/2018
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excellent, sweet calculator
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Tom Walker
12/18/2018
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Well laid out and many practical problems/solutions.
Easy and accurate software.
Great course.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Jerry T Dalton
12/14/2018
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Great course. Straight to meaningful information.
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Jerry T Dalton
12/14/2018
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Great course. Straight to meaningful information.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Larry Harrell
10/22/2018
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Very worth while course.
Good to have the XL program for solving problems.
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Adam Skelton
08/28/2018
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Test questions are well thought out.
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I found it very challenging and the software very useful
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Excellent review of Hazen-Williams pipe flows
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Wendell Stokes
08/03/2018
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Very good refresher course.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
08/02/2018
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I liked the course and the practical exercise problems.
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Kim Hoskins
07/24/2018
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Great refresher course!
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Solon Hale
03/30/2018
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Good review of the fundamentals of water flow in pipes. The examples helped to solidify the principals being presented.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Harry Vanpelt
12/28/2017
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Good review of hydraulic calculations and how to manipulate them. Handy Excel tool.
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sqmir bahho
12/24/2017
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The course was informative that help solving problems encountering engineers in professional life.
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R. E. Wooten, Jr.
12/14/2017
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A good introduction to the H-W equation and a useful piece of software.
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JERRY LEE HALL
11/23/2017
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Great way to solve piping designs! excellent examples! The definition of Hydraulic Radius is a question. Do you use area/wetted perimeter or 4 times the area/wetted perimeter? The definition I'm used to using results in the Hydraulic Radius being equal to the Radius of a round pipe flowing full. The answer to question #9 is not consistent with this as the answer there is . . . Also, on Page 28, the wrong inputs have been used. 66 inches should have been an input for pipe diameter in the computer program rather than 180 cubic feet per second for the flow.
"R" is the hydraulic radius, not the radius of the pipe. I have added some intermediate derivation steps to help clarify.
<"The definition I'm used to using results in the Hydraulic Radius being equal to the Radius of a round pipe flowing full. ">
You have simply been using the wrong definition. The hydraulic radius of a pipe flowing full is HALF the radius of the pipe.
Portions of the review comments were deleted because they reveal the correct answer to a test question.
The problem on page 28 was that I inserted the wrong screen-shot. I have now fixed it. Glad to see that you are paying attention and keeping the instructor honest.
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Terry J. Herrmann
11/03/2017
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I agree with many other reviewers that this course provides a very good overview / refresher and the Excel tool is very handy. The exam questions make you think and are good examples of real world application.
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Roger A. Cardon
10/19/2017
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This course is a good review of the Hazen-Williams formula. It emphasizes how useful the formula is in solving pipe flow problems. Though the examples are simplified, they do show the range of problems that can be addressed. The software is very useful.
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Jeffrey K Bradley
08/20/2017
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Great beginner course for learning this concept. I would suggest updating the course material screen shots to match the newer version of the spreadsheet, even though the answers are unchanged.
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David T Nauman
07/14/2017
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Course provided great exposure to the Hazen-Williams method. Besides the earned credit for professional development hours, the course provided practical information that I can use in practice.
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Richard Rose
04/01/2017
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I enjoyed the course.
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Gary Hall
03/11/2017
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I use H/W all the time and use precise exponents and could not get your answers precisely. You need to adjust your methods,
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Mohammad Jafari
03/06/2017
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Very Practical and good exercise, enjoyed.
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Erwin Everett
03/03/2017
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I found the course worthwhile and challenging. The software was ofm great value.
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Ananta Nath
02/28/2017
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Very comprehensive review of this widely used hydraulics formula with handy Excel macros and interesting practical applications. Enjoyed immensely. Keep up the good work.
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Valeria Collier-Vick
02/28/2017
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Good examples.
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Pat Sheehan
02/25/2017
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Very challenging, and a great learning experience. Would have liked to see a little more "theory", but the examples really helped to clear the cobwebs!
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Dick Madaus
02/22/2017
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Course was a great review of water computations and improving my skills
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Dominic Marra
02/20/2017
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The excel program is a great tool. Easy to use. Nice course.
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Richard Fraze P.E.
02/16/2017
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The course was easy to understand and took me a little over 4hrs. to complete.
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Anthony M. Hiatt
02/15/2017
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This course took me back to the Fluid Mechanics courses that I had in college. The software is excellent and easy to use. I would recommend to anyone wishing to gain a broader understanding of Water flow in pipes.
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Harold Keyes
02/15/2017
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Very good review course.
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Tia Counts
02/12/2017
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Great course with good examples.
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Diana
02/10/2017
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At first I thought the course was going to be difficult, but a quick review of the examples in the text provided all of the information needed to use the Excel calculator with 100% success. It is actually a great tool to have for a wide variety of piping/flow situations.
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Jeff Spiller
01/11/2017
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This course was easy to follow and understand. The software is very user friendly and provided consistent results.
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Tim Hays
12/23/2016
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Good course that comes with a useful flow calculation tool
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Don Hall
12/13/2016
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The course consist of interesting and fun examples to work using the Excel tool. The tool is very handy. I highly recommend both!
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Ernest L Klaber
12/07/2016
After reading the course material and doing the sample problems and the test question problems, one is ready to solve many pipe flow problems that are encountered in the field.
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RS Lytton
12/06/2016
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Good review of hydraulics, and good practical presentation of material. Downloadable calculator is a real benefit.
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Linda Chaisson
11/22/2016
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The course was interesting and a good review for those who have not used the Hazen Williams formula in a while. The calculator is very helpful.
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Allen Jones
11/21/2016
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I've worked with hydraulics and pipe lines for most of my engineering career. This was fun yet challenging.
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Bill Bagley
11/20/2016
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Good course
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Houshang
10/27/2016
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Simply an excellent course and a valuable software that I will keep handy for my practice.
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Patrick E. High
10/19/2016
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Very detailed and complete
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Outstanding practical application for pipes flowing full. My congratulations to the author for making the effort to relate the course material to real world applications. The word problems are excellent because they frame a problem and lead the student to think a bit about how the H-W can be used to solve. The test goes another step and helped me learn even more about practical applications. And finally, the well engineered spreadsheet is a work of art - one of the most practical tools I've ever seen.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Renier
10/14/2016
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Practical and helpful tool to use in real work scenarios. Easy to follow and detailed solutions provided at the end of the quiz.
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050-Water Flow in Pipes - The Hazen-Williams Formula
Donald King
10/07/2016
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Excellent course giving experience in using a spreadsheet for accomplishing repetitive calculation of the Hazen-Williams formula flows in circular pipes flowing full.
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Water Flow in Pipes
James R. Legerski
07/10/2016
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Very good course, the program itself was well worth it, fun and made you think
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Hazen-Williams Formula
It is embarrassing to admit, but this formula and its practical implementation have always baffled me. Working the problems and using the spreadsheet has cleared away the clouds, so to speak. I would recommend this course to anyone who is struggling with the Hazen-Williams concepts.
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Hazen-Williams Formula Review course
Practical information and review of the H-W Formula. Liked the software.
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050 - Water Flow In Pipes - Hazen Williams Eq.
Anonymous reviewer
04/15/2016
Practical info and a very handy spreadsheet for day-to-day use.
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Useful for real problem solving
Merwin Jones
02/21/2016
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This was an excellent course. It was designed to use the included software to reduce repetitive calculations, but still required use of many basic flow principles to complete. The course used increasingly more complex problems, and led the user through the process of solving them. Examples were similar to what an engineer might really encounter in the field.
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Good Review
02/19/2016
Verified Buyer
Good refresher. Not every step is given in the examples so you do have to think through some of them. The test has its own twists not covered in the examples but it was a fair test.
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Water Flow in Pipes - an excellent course
This was just an excellent course. I really liked the technique of teaching the course by examples, and I found the examples to be very interesting. I especially liked the fact the examples seemed so down to earth. The test was challenging, but fair. Some of the questions went beyond what was taught in the course, but those questions were manageable. The hint on the one question did help.
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Water Flow in Pipes
Anonymous reviewer
12/31/2015
Very good course, and excellent software provided. Very useful for solving practical problems. One of the best PDH courses I've taken. Highly recommended.
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050 Water Flow in Pipes
James Schaefer
12/26/2015
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The course provides a very useful approach to using the H&W formula for analyzing flow in pipes. The spreadsheet 'program' is very useful for calculating the various variables in the hydraulic analysis.
The high degree of precision is not realistic as an engineering analysis, and the 'perfect' answers to the various questions/problems. Many times the responses were to 4 significant figures when one or two of the input variables were only to 2 significant figures. As engineers, we are faced with accepting the idea that our analyses are good approximations and their is uncertainty in our work. In addition, the lack of discussion about minor losses is a significant omission when considering some of the fire flow lines. The additional valves and other fittings/entrances/exits could add noticeable headless, which should be accounted for. These impacts should at least be discussed.
We agree that the engineer should be mindful of significant figures when analyzing the output data from the spreadsheet program but the number of decimal points cannot be preset by the software. You will need to set your installation of Excel to the number of significant figures that you deem appropriate.
As for the head-loss through valves and fittings, the point is well taken. We should have mentioned that those can be conveniently handled by reducing everything to an equivalent length of straight pipe.
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Anonymous reviewer
12/14/2015
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This course was very helpful, as well as the software. In my opinion an excellent refresher on pressure flow in pipes and solving real world problems.
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Richard Reyes
08/24/2015
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Liked using the excel flow calculator. Liked the added note on the bottom that indicated whether enough information had been submitted.
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Water Flow in Pipes
Willuam Goodfellow
06/27/2015
I am a P.E. with over 30 years involved with design and analysis of drainage and pressure pipes. I chose this course in order to see what advances had taken place with the techniques and methodology since the early years of my career. I was very impressed with the Hydro-Calc program and the savings in time and the laborious calculations I had become used during my pre-computer years. I plan on using this on all applicable projects in the future. The course was well organized and presented.
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Donna M. Bullock
05/25/2015
A little more basic explanation of psi divided by length (first time I have ever seen it) combining rise over run and pressure I feel was needed- maybe 4 or 5 pages - should have been before the too many example problems. Any one can plug numbers, but the results in area of psi/feet and such was unspecified. The problems in the exam where real good - more example problems with only 2 or 3 answers to follow was nice - unlike another test in pipes and flows where only 3 examples encompassed the entire test.
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Another Good Course from SunCam
As with the Manning flow course, this had a plug n chug software download that made answering test questions a breeze.
Similarly, could be improved with some thought provoking problems.
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Was very challenging and the test required some thought to get the right answers. I totally enjoyed the course.
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Reidar D.V Bjork
02/16/2015
Sufficiently thorough to give the user a good run down on the many possible uses of the Hazen Williams formula & computation tool.
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Informative information, clear and understandable.
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Water Flow in Pipes
Clear explanations, good supporting material.
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Review after many years
A great review. Well done, the calculator is handy and a lot easier than the chart we made in 1951. I had fun along the way
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Stephen L. Neck
01/12/2015
Excellant! Very professional!
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The course was good because it got me to sit down for a few hours and really work the hazen- williams formula for different givens. I usually work in US customary so it was a good refresher throwing in some SI unit problems.
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Excellent refresher with great, real world example problems
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Excellent. This is what a PDH course should be. The Excel tool is very nice by itself. But what makes this course so effective is you have to read and understand the examples to make effective use of the tool and complete the test. It's been awhile since I performed calculations like these. It was an excellent refresher.
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great course - useful program
DAVID R. HAINES
12/11/2014
The course was straight forward and enjoyable reading. The software was simple to use and can even be used for data conversions. I enjoyed the refresher course but wish I knew what question on the test i missed.
SunCam comment: Check your in-basket. You get detailed test results and explanations whenever you pass a test.
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Richard Newman
11/18/2014
Good review. Good workout on the test
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J R Sheringer
Very well done!
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curtis j young, pe
11/13/2014
author misspelled "principles" on p4, otherwise crisp, entertaining, and informative course material in showing ways the H-W formula is useful in real-world applications. text got me very interested in the formula and its many variations. there are many who misunderstand it if one studies the internet requests for help. my understanding has been much improved.
SunCam Comment: Fixed! Thanks for the edit.
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Excellent for the entry level
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Excellent refresher for Hazen-Williams equations.
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More Meat
More example problems with differing complexities would be useful with less space filled with input illustrations.
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Interesting and useful spreadsheet for quick approximations on pressure pipe parameters. I've been doing these calculations longhand for most all my career. Hope it instills use and understanding of the basic formula with the younger Engineers who rely too heavily on the multi-node programs of today with little thought to what is occurring in the individual lines.
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Excellent class. The software provided as part of the class was very handy. The answers to the test questions were not all found in the test materials and required some additional thought, which was good (for example, dimensional analysis, etc.)
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Excellent material, especially the Excel Software
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Water Flow in Pipes
EXCELLENT REFRESHER,CLEAR AND STRAIGHT FORWARD REVIEW. GOOD SOFTWARE TOOL.
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Very helpful, I will be able to use this as a design aid.
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Good course, needs a little more details on how the formulas work.
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Steve Vogelsberg
06/04/2014
This was a very useful course at a good price. I've been performing hydraulic calculations for 40 years and the Hydro-Calc spreadsheet would have saved me a lot of time!
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The excel program is quite clever.
It would be nice to have an unprotected version to merge with some other work I am doing.
I suggest puting the equations and logic up front and review them first, before jumping into the spreadsheet.
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David Gardellin
05/02/2014
A clear, concise explanation of the underlying hydraulic principles needed to analyze piping situations. Material is explained in a straightforward manner that gets right to the point.
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The application examples are excellently designed to help the course attendee easily learn how to apply the Hydro-Calc software for solving practical water flow in pipes problems.
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Thomas E. Cappellin
04/09/2014
The course was very informative and made my understanding of the topic very helpful.
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Though a number of questions were certainly of a practical nature, I believe too many of the questions were just an exercise in plugging numbers into the spreadsheet.
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Problem analysis and calculations... GREAT
G Claiborne, FPE
03/20/2014
A good course... and a great spreadsheet simplification of gruntwork.
You should include a fire-sprinkler calculation in your examples since you mention in your ad that HW is for sprinkler pipe sizing.
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Hazen-Williams Formula
J. Deliyiannis, NJ
02/25/2014
It's been a long time since I studied this material. Reading the course booklet and sample problems became challenging at times but the review paid off with the test results.
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This course was a good review of pipe flow that made me think and remember things that had gone stale in my mind.
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Good review of this subject
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Good Basic Information
While the information was good and relevant, the majority of the course document was example questions. Explanations of the example questions were limited to what to input into the software, not how the inputs were determined. Additional explanation would add value to the course. This course is more a "how to" of the software, not a overview of water flow in pipes. Decent value at $19.95 but I certainly wouldn't pay any more for this course.
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Excellent - Great Cont'd Ed
Never worked with an excel program before. Really enjoyed working on the theory and not spending my time operating my calculator. The examples in the course and excel are just excellent.
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Very good course
Very good examples and HydroCalc is a great tool.
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Ritchey Marbury
11/26/2013
Outstanding course and outstanding software. I have been doing most of this by hand, and the software saves a lot of time. The course is worth the cost for the software alone.
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John W. Oberlies, Jr., PE
11/19/2013
This was a nice little refresher of fundamentals for pipe flow.
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Water Flow in Pipes - Great but found no free software
I just successfully completed this fine course. However, I could not find any link or otherwise get the free hydraulic calculation software. Not to worry, I had an old copy of V1.1 Hydro-Calc on my computer and it worked fine.
Suggest you explain that there is considerable judgment that needs to be exercised in selection of the roughness variable = C. For example, FDEP regulation requires that for force mains constructed from smooth pipe, such as PVC and Polyethylene and lined Ductile Iron the C factor should not exceed C= 120 per Recommended Standards for Wastewater Facilities (1997). However, at startup, these smooth pipes exhibit much higher C factors of as much as 150. Care must be exercised when selecting the C factor to insure connected pumps do not runout on the right side of the selected pump and impellor combination. I have made a pretty good living correcting oversized pumps impellor/undersized motors due to improper use of the overly conservative C factor.
SunCam response: Sorry about the mixup with the software download. That's fixed now.
Excellent point about the careful selection of C factors. That's what makes this an engineering problem and not just math.
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I do not agree with your answer to question 9. since you do not state that the pipe is flowing full, there is not enough info to solve the problem. thought you would like to know.....
Author response: Hazen-Williams is not the preferred formula for solving partially full pipes so it did not occur to me to specify a full pipe. Still, adding "flowing full" to the question removes an ambiguity so I have made the modification. Thanks for the suggestion!
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The course offered good practical applications of H-W formula and useful methods for analyzing alternative.
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the examples were pretty good, but there were a few "c" usage errors - you routinely said use 140 for PVC which is wrong. also, some of the problems didnt fully represent real world situations. they were pretty good though, thanks.
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The software is a great little tool. I'm sure that it will come in handy somewhere down the road. A course with a little meat on it once in awhile is kinda nice.
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Lewis
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calculator very handy
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Very useful spreadsheet. I will be using this for piping pressure drop calculations in building systems (domestic/hydronic). It will be especially useful for renovation projects, to quantify constraints of existing piping/systems, wherein only a few measurable pieces of information may be obtained and other governing criteria may be assumed based on era of construction. The course document provided good examples that illustrated the interactivity of parameters of water flow. Appreciated the disclaimers regarding judicious use.
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very good course...I would highly recommend it. Excellent use of the spreadsheet with Hazen-Williams formula!
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James J Mullen Jr
10/22/2012
Couse was very well done and the software is very helpful. great job
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Robert R Sherman
05/08/2012
In my opinion the course was excellent!
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Amazing software!
The software for this course works perfectly and the course is very informative.
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Course meet requirements
Corse meet requirements and software was easy to use.
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PDH/Refresher Material
Brad W. Lyons, PE
06/10/2011
Good review of the Hazen-Williams formula. The spreadsheet serves as a very helpful stand-alone design tool for those involved in the sizing or evaluation of water piping systems. Very thorough range of example problems that demonstrate H-W calculation options.
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Very well done!
A much better course than I have reviewed in the past few months. I like the calculations requirements using the spreadsheet. This is a decent "continuing ed" experience and not just a memorization exercize or gimmick.
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Very Cool Software
I'm going to take the Manning course too!
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Sample problems are clever. Course is well done and requires some thought. Software is very useful....could have used it many times in the past. The software will run on OpenOffice!
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Examples are like work experience it is the place where the rubber meets the road. Sometimes it takes pages of words to explain what one example or illustration does.
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G00D, covered the basics and made you think!!
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AN excellent overview of Hazen Williams. The Excel calculator is worth the price of the class alone.
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Steve Peterson
10/19/2010
Kind of easy, love the spreadsheet - I will put it on my desktop & use it.
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Well Done
This is a great course but it should be 4 hours.
SunCam comment: The course was expanded to 4-hours in 2012.
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Forgot how neat the formula really is
Course reminded me of the value of the formula and with the calculator the units don't get in the way.
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I thought this was an excellent course. I am not a civil engineer, but with the Hydro-Calc program I believe I could handle almost any flow problem I would encounter. The program is simple, easy to use and gives instantaneous results.
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This course met all objectives. I learned about the Hazen-Williams Formula and used the SunCam Hydro-Calc Tool
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Recommendation
Good primer/refresher course for Hazen-Williams. I also like the excel calculator. I found this course worthwhile, and reasonably priced.
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This is an excellent continuing education class. You actually review items you can use.
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Hydro-Calc is the best!
I took the course 2 weeks ago and I have used Hydro-Calc several times since then. I have given copies of the program to everyone in my office.
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Hydro-Calc is a very good tool and I will use it often in the future. The test was a good refresher.
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The Hydro-Calc is a great little tool. I'll enjoy using it in the future. The course overall was interesting and good. Not overly challenging, but it made me think. Both the course and the test showed how effective, yet easy to use, the Hydro-Calc tool is.
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