With the emphasis in recent years on intentional and
nonintentional contamination events and optimal sensor
placement, water utility managers are interested in network
skeletonization issues because some degree of network
simplification or aggregation is required to obtain
both hydraulic and water quality results and assessment
estimates within reasonable time frames and restrictive
budgets. A method has been developed that can simplify
complex water distribution system network modeling so
that the reduced or simplified network provides reliable
results for both pressures and contaminant concentrations.
The methodology for network skeletonization presented
here is based on both hydraulic and water quality
aggregation of an all-pipes network. In this
research, the aggregation method was capable of reducing
system size by almost half, while still preserving
system characteristics in terms of reliably simulating
pressures and concentrations.
These results demonstrated that even when an
aggregated representation of an all-pipes network is
used, reliable hydraulic and water quality results
can be obtained. Utility managers using a reduced
network that is based on the methodology described
in the article can be confident that the reliability
and robustness of simulated results have not been
compromised. Includes 22 references, tables, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. 100 - No. 6 |
| File Size : | 1
file
, 670 KB |
| Note : | This product is unavailable in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus |
| Number of Pages : | 12 |
| Published : | 06/01/2008 |
