{"id":401,"date":"2014-12-16T02:55:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T02:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irh.eng.cu.edu.eg\/?page_id=401"},"modified":"2015-10-31T22:47:56","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T20:47:56","slug":"irrigation-and-hydraulics-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/irrigation-and-hydraulics-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Irrigation and Hydraulics Laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Overview<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since its opening, 75 years ago, IHL has continued to provide Egypt, Africa and the Arab World with qualified hydraulic engineers. IHL occupies a large area of 3,500 m\u00b2. Besides its educational and research role, IHL plays other roles including its contributions in the consultancy and testing services related to the hydraulics of water systems.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Laboratory\u00a0\u00a0Services:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1) Conducting onsite flow, velocity and turbulence measurements in open channels, rivers and drains;<br \/>\n2) Conducting onsite bathymetric survey across wide streams\/rivers, lakes and coastal areas ;<br \/>\n3) Conducting pump performance acceptance test as per ISO 9906;<br \/>\n4) Conducting calibration of flow meters, pressure gauges and water valves;<br \/>\n5) Conducting hydraulic pressure tests of pipes;<br \/>\n6) Carrying out lab tests for determining the actual roughness of the pipeline;<br \/>\n7) Carrying out physical models for hydraulic structures, spillways and stilling basins;<br \/>\n8) In-house design and fabrication of fluid-mechanics demo experiments for civil engineering students;<br \/>\n9) Measuring water quality parameters;<br \/>\n10) Conducting hands on workshop training for the conventional and the new techniques in flow measurements in pipes and canals.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Previous work:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Conducting onsite flow downstream of Ismailia Canal and across Nile River at Maadi Island via Acoustic Doppler Profiler (ADP);<br \/>\n\u2022 Conducting onsite pipe flow measurement for the irrigation network at Mubarak Academy for Security using ultrasonic flow meter;<br \/>\n\u2022 Conducting a large number of pump performance\/acceptance tests for Calpeda, Saer and KSB;<br \/>\n\u2022 Calibration of flow meters;<br \/>\n\u2022 Conducting hydrostatic pressure tests of pipes for different companies;<br \/>\n\u2022 Carrying out a number of onsite field measurements training&#8217;s for TA&#8217;s and engineers from different universities and MWRI;<br \/>\n\u2022 Mapping of Groundwater levels near Sphinx;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview Since its opening, 75 years ago, IHL has continued to provide Egypt, Africa and the Arab World with qualified hydraulic engineers. IHL occupies a large area of 3,500 m\u00b2. Besides its educational and research role, IHL plays other roles including its contributions in the consultancy and testing services related to the hydraulics of water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-401","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/401\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihd.eng.cu.edu.eg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}