{"id":3741,"date":"2024-09-11T11:33:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T06:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/?p=3741"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T10:50:36","slug":"egg-shaped-sewer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/ce\/egg-shaped-sewer","title":{"rendered":"Egg Shaped Sewer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Egg Shaped Sewer Section<\/h2>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Circular sewer sections are mostly used for separate sewage system. However, other forms of sewer section such as egg-shaped, horseshoe-shaped, parabolic, rectangular, semi-elliptical, etc., may be used.<\/li>\n<li>The circular sections are generally preferred to all other shapes because of their following advantages:\n<ul>\n<li>They can be manufactured most easily and conveniently.<\/li>\n<li>A circular sewer provides the maximum area for a given perimeter and thus providing the maximum hydraulic mean depth when running full or half full, and is therefore, the most efficient section of these flow conditions.<\/li>\n<li>Circular section utilizes the minimum quantities of materials and is therefore the cheapest and most economical.<\/li>\n<li>A circular section, being of uniform curvature all round, offers less opportunities for deposits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>All these advantages of circular sections are obtained only when the sections runs at least half full. When the depth goes below half depth the velocity reduces considerably.<\/li>\n<li>If a circular sewer is used for combined system it will be effective only during maximum rain water flow but during dry weather flow, velocity generated would be very less. Thus to take advantage of a circular sewer, two such circular <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/sewage-discharge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sewer<\/a> are assumed to be combined into one to form an \u201cegg shaped sewer\u201d in which smaller circular portion will be effective during dry weather and full section is effective during maximum rainwater flow. Egg shaped sewers maintain hydraulic depth nearly uniform and gives 2 to 15% higher velocities than provided by hydraulically equivalent circular sections carrying the same discharge.<\/li>\n<li>Two sewers of different shapes are said to be hydraulically equivalent when they discharge at the same rate, while flowing full, on the same grade.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3743 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/egg-shaped-section.jpg\" alt=\"Egg Shaped Section\" width=\"315\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/egg-shaped-section.jpg 315w, https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/egg-shaped-section-300x238.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the increase in velocity is quite small compared to their disadvantages,such sewers, which were quite often used in old days, are becoming obsolete these days. Their disadvantage over circular sewers are:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">(i) They are more difficult to construct.<br \/>\n(ii) Since the smaller base has to support the weight of the upper broader section, they are less stable.<br \/>\n(iii) They require more material and thus are costly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the computation of the wetted area and wetted perimeter of such sewers is very difficult, therefore, while designing such sewers, the usual practice is to calculate the approximate diameter of a hydraulically equivalent circular sewer first, which would give the same discharge when running full at the same gradient, and then to convert it into dimensions of an egg shaped section having an equal area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For computing an egg-shaped sewer of an equivalent section, diameter of circular section (D) is multiplied by a constant factor (i.e. 0.84) so as to get top horizontal diameter width (D \u2032) of ed section, i. section i.e. D\u2032 = 0.84D<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">where,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">D \u2032 = Width of egg-shaped section.<br \/>\nD = Diameter of circular sewer of same cross-sectional area for required discharge<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a class=\"btn btn-danger\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/biological-zones-in-lakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;&lt; Previous<\/a> | <a class=\"btn btn-success\" role=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/ce\/sewage-discharge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Next &gt;&gt;<\/a><br \/>\n<strong> Must Read: <\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/study.madeeasy.in\/subjects\/what-is-environmental-engineering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What is Environmental Engineering?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egg Shaped Sewer Section Circular sewer sections are mostly used for separate sewage system. However, other forms of sewer section<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ce","category-environmental-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madeeasy.in\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}