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Author: Mahdi Moradi Jalal
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Sérgio Teixeira Coelho
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Author: Enrique Cabrera
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401718415
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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This book contains the lectures given in the International Course "Improving efficiency and reliability in water supply systems", hosted and sponsored by the Menendez Pelayo International University (U.I.M.P.) and co-sponsored by Aguas de Valencia, the British Council and the EC Cornett and Erasmus programmes. The short course took place in Valencia (Spain) in November 1994, with an attendance of more than one hundred delegates. We must not only acknowedge and thank Dr. Joaquin Azagra, as UIMP Director, but also his collaborators D. Luis Moreno and Lidia Lopez for their support in the preparation of the Course and during the course taking place. UIMP sponsorship allowed us to assemble in Valencia an eminent cadre of lecturers coming from all over the world, that covered in an ordered and precise fashion some of the more relevant aspects on efficiency and reliability in water supply systems. We are very thankful to all these leading lecturers for their invaluable cooperation. The publication of this book and the Spanish edition as well, have been made possible thanks to the sponsorship of both Polytechnic University of Valencia througout its Chancellor, Justo Nieto, and Aguas de Valencia throughout its General Director Alvaro Aguirre. We must also thank Kluwer Academic Publishers and especially their Publisher Petra van Steenbergen for her assistance, careful presentation and production of the book.

Author: Dragan A Savic
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN: 1835498469
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Water Supply and Distribution Systems, Second edition is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of how water is delivered to homes and businesses throughout the world. It covers fundamental concepts and exploring the latest ideas of good practice.

Author: Seneshaw Amare Tsegaye
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Languages : en
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With increasing global change pressures such as urbanization and climate change, cities of the future will experience difficulties in efficiently managing scarcer and less reliable water resources. However, projections of future global change pressures are plagued with uncertainties. This increases the difficulty in developing urban water systems that are adaptable to future uncertainty. A major component of an urban water system is the distribution system, which constitutes approximately 80-85% of the total cost of the water supply system (Swamee and Sharma, 2008). Traditionally, water distribution systems (WDS) are designed using deterministic assumptions of main model input variables such as water availability and water demand. However, these deterministic assumptions are no longer valid due to the inherent uncertainties associated with them. Hence, a new design approach is required, one that recognizes these inherent uncertainties and develops more adaptable and flexible systems capable of using their active capacity to act or respond to future alterations in a timely, performance-efficient, and cost-effective manner. This study develops a framework for the design of flexible WDS that are adaptable to new, different, or changing requirements. The framework consists of two main parts. The first part consists of several components that are important in the pre and post--processing of the least-cost design methodology of a flexible WDS. These components include: the description of uncertainties affecting WDS design, identification of potential flexibility options for WDS, generation of flexibility through optimization, and a method for assessing of flexibility. For assessment a suite of performance metrics is developed that reflect the degree of flexibility of a distribution system. These metrics focus on the capability of the WDS to respond and react to future changes.

Author: Helena Alegre
Publisher: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1780406320
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The IWA Performance Indicator System for water services is now recognized as a worldwide reference. Since it first appearance in 2000, the system has been widely quoted, adapted and used in a large number of projects both for internal performance assessment and metric benchmarking. Water professionals have benefited from a coherent and flexible system, with precise and detailed definitions that in many cases have become a standard. The system has proven to be adaptable and it has been used in very different contexts for diverse purposes. The Performance Indicators System can be used in any organization regardless of its size, nature (public, private, etc.) or degree of complexity and development. The third edition of Performance Indicators for Water Supply Services represents a further improvement of the original manual. It contains a reviewed and consolidated version of the indicators, resulting from the real needs of water companies worldwide that were expressed during the extensive field testing of the original system. The indicators now properly cover bulk distribution and the needs of developing countries, and all definitions have been thoroughly revised. The confidence grading scheme has been simplified and the procedure to assess the results- uncertainty has been significantly enhanced. In addition to the updated contents of the original edition, a large part of the manual is now devoted to the practical application of the system. Complete with simplified step-by-step implementation procedures and case studies, the manual provides guidelines on how to adapt the IWA concepts and indicators to specific contexts and objectives. This new edition of Performance Indicators for Water Supply Services is an invaluable reference source for all those concerned with managing the performance of the water supply industry, including those in the water utilities as well as regulators, policy-makers and financial agencies.

Author: Thomas M. Walski
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Arun K. Deb
Publisher: American Water Works Association
ISBN: 1613001665
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Author: Thomas M. Walski
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Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 812

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Accompanying CD-ROM includes: a 25-pipe academic version of WaterCAD with stand-alone interface; the WaterCAD files for individual problems; the WaterCAD user manual and an examination booklet for continuing education credits; Adobe Acrobat Reader software for viewing the manual and booklet.

Author: M. A. M. Mansoor
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Languages : en
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Water distribution systems are often susceptible to failure events, mainly due to component malfunctions, increase in demand and pollution events. However, levels of service to the consumers cannot be compromised. Therefore, to understand the behaviour of distribution systems, performance assessment is important. In this thesis, problem of failure events in water distributions system is discussed and the causes of failure are described. Component failures are selected to simulate the extreme situations in the distribution systems. Random nature of the component failures are simulated by way of employing a Monte Carlo technique based on the failure probabilities of the components. The methodology was illustrated with an example application. Appropriateness of existing network analysis methods to simulate failure events is analysed and their shortcomings identified. To demonstrate the impact of component failures, they are simulated with the hydraulic network analysis model. The traditional demand driven network analysis approach is not sensitive to pressure variations in the system. Therefore, simulating failures with demand driven analysis methods produces inaccurate flows at the nodes. The pressure dependent demand analysis on the other hand, is capable of accommodating the flow redistributions in the water distribution network, caused by failure events. The pressure dependent functions used in the analysis are meant to predict the flows that are consumed by the secondary networks (tree network supplied from primary node). However, representing the secondary network behaviour by using only a few coefficients (as in the PDD functions) do not always results in correct predictions. An alternative method that is based on micro level models (secondary networks) is proposed. Micro level models try to simulate the exact network conditions, taking into account of the consumers piping arrangements. Applying micro level models to a large real network will be a tedious process, as the size of the network will increase by many folds. To avoid the difficulties in the micro level modeling, a method based on artificial neural networks (ANN) is introduced. The ANNs mimic the behaviour of secondary networks in the micro level model. Therefore, instead of physically attaching the secondary networks, ANNs are incorporated with the analysis. The ANN based network analysis model predicts the pressure dependent demand outflows at the nodes. The behaviour of water distribution system is evaluated using performance measures. Existing performance indicators are reviewed and their shortcomings identified. New measures are proposed that give better insights into the behaviour of the system and also the failure experience of the consumers. The improved performance assessment method is applied to a case study network and results were explained.