Technique for the Pressure-Driven Analysis of Water Distribution Networks with Flow- and Pressure-Regulating Valves
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Abstract
This technical note presents a technique for the pressure-driven analysis (PDA) of water distribution networks with flow- and pressure-regulating valves. The technique is a combination of a PDA method based on adding artificial components (a pipe with a check valve, a flow control valve, and an emitter) to each demand node and a hybrid simulator that models valves as pipes of variable resistance in cases where the EPANET 2.0 valve treatment heuristics fails. The examples considered demonstrate that the proposed PDA technique may be an alternative to EPANET 2.2, the latest version of EPANET 2.0 with a PDA option, in cases where the latter is not applicable or fails to compute the correct solution.
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Data Availability Statement
The example networks considered in this technical note and the hybrid simulator based on EPANET 2.0 are available from the corresponding author upon request.
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Volume 147 • Issue 5 • May 2021
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Received: Apr 30, 2020
Accepted: Nov 5, 2020
Published online: Mar 8, 2021
Published in print: May 1, 2021
Discussion open until: Aug 8, 2021
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