Course IWM 401: Pumps and Wells Credit: 2

Pumps and Pumping Plants: Indigenous water lifting devices, Pump classification,
characteristics and selection, Pump-pipe line system design, Power requirements, Efficiency
and economics of pumping plants, Pump installation, operation and maintenance.

Deep Well Turbine and Submersible Pumps: Principles of operation, Pump selection and
installation, Pump troubles, remedies and maintenance.

Water Wells: Open wells and Tube wells, Types, design and construction of open wells.

Tube wells and their Design: Types of tube wells, Components of a tubewell assembly, Types
and selection of strainers, Design of housing pipe, casing, screen and gravel packs, Radial wells and
infiltration galleries, Tubewell interference and spacing.

Tubewell Construction: Construction of bored and driven wells, Methods of tubewell drilling,
Selection of a drilling method, Verticality of tube wells, Installation of tubewell accessories,
Pump and prime movers, Sanitary protection of tube wells.

Tubewell Development and Testing: Purpose and methods of well development, Well test for
yield and performance, Well losses and efficiency.

Tubewell Failure and Rehabilitation: Causes of tubewell failure, Diagnosing of well failure,
Corrosion and incrustation of well screens, Rehabilitation of sick wells.

Text Books:

1. Water Well and Pump Engineering - by A. M Michael al S D Khepar, Tata McGraw

Hill Publishing Co. Ltd. New Delhi, 1992.
2. Water Well Technology - by M. D. Campbell and J. H. Lehr; MeGraw Hill Book Co., N. Y.
1973.

References:

1. Pumps - Types, selection, installation, operation and maintenance - by A. F. Revisal and F.

A. Annet; McGraw Hill Book Company Inc. N. Y., 1953.
2. Irrigation Pumps, their selection and use - University of California. USA.
3. Pump Application Engineeing - by T. G. Hicks and T. W. Edwards; McGraw - Hill, New
York.
4. Groundwater and Wells - by Edward E. Johnson; Inc, Saint Pant, Minnesota, USA,
1966.
5. Groundwater and Tubewells - by S. P Garg; Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. New
Delhi, 1978.
Groundwater Hydrology - by D. K. Todd; Wiles and Sons
Irrigation - Theory and Practice - by A. M. Michael; Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi,
Groundwater - by H. M. Raghunath; Wiley Eastern Limited, Delhi.
Pumping for Irrigation - by L. D. Wood; Soil Conservation Service, USDA, Washington
D.C.
Course IWM 402: Pumps and Wells Credit: 1

1. Study of manually operated pumps and report writing

2. Study of suction mode and force mode pumps report writing
3. Determination of efficiencies of pumping devices
4. Preparation of a typical layout of an irrigation pump installation
5. Determination of power requirements of centrifugal pumps and cost estimations
6. Analysis of test boring samples for preparation of grain size distribution curves and well
logs.
7. Performance evaluation of a tube well by field test
8. Field visit to a deep tube well drilling site and writing a report

Text Books:

1. Water Well and Pump Engineering - by A. M Michael al S D Khepar, Tata McGraw

Hill
Publishing Co. Ltd. New Delhi, 1992.
2. Water Well Technology - by M. D. Campbell and J. H. Lehr; MeGraw Hill Book Co.,

N. Y. 1973.

References:

Pumps - Types, selection, installation, operation and maintenance - by A. F. Revisal and F. A.

Annet; McGraw Hill Book Company Inc. N. Y., 1953.
Irrigation Pumps, their selection and use - by University of California. USA.
3. Pump Application Engineeing - by T. G. Hicks and T. W. Edwards; McGraw - Hill, New
York.
4. Groundwater and Wells - by Edward E. Johnson; Inc, Saint Pant, Minnesota, USA,
1966.
5. Groundwater and Tubewells - by S. P Garg; Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. New
Delhi, 1978.
6. Groundwater Hydrology - by D. K. Todd; Wiles and Sons
7. Irrigation - Theory and Practice - by A. M. Michael; Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd.
New Delhi,
8. Groundwater - by H. M. Raghunath; Wiley Eastern Limited, Delhi.

9. Pumping for Irrigation - by L. D. Wood; Soil Conservation Service, USDA,

Washington D.C.