EPANET-C—An Umbrella Simulation Tool for Water Distribution System Quality Analysis
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2022
ABSTRACT
Water distribution systems’ (WDS) quality analysis is a complex exercise due to the many constraints and decision variables, the nonlinearity, the non-smoothness of the head–flow–water quality governing equations, and the inter-complexity of WDS behavior. Classically, the WDS quality models operate the time-series output of the hydraulic models, typically EPANET, as its time-series input. Apart from hydraulic input, the other inputs include contamination characteristics (location, type, and duration) and the equilibrium/kinetic relationships defining the reactions within the WDS domain. EPANET-MSX has now become a familiar tool for WDS quality modeling owing to its collaboration with EPANET. The challenging tasks in applying EPANET-MSX are conceptualizing the exchanges between WDS components and water quality parameters and evolving scientific descriptions of the water chemistry stoichiometric interactions. Besides, the EPANET-MSX application necessitates programming skills for successful implementation from a software engineering viewpoint due to its uneasy user interface. We aim to overcome these challenges of applying EPANET—EPANET-MSX for WDS quality modeling by developing EPANET-C, an umbrella simulation platform for simulating numerous accidental/intentional WDS contamination events. It employs a simple command-line interface and avoids the programming requirements almost entirely. EPANET-C synergizes EPANET and EPANET-MSX by employing the in-built and customizable directories of conceptual and mathematical models abstracting the physical, chemical, and biological reactions and designing the equilibrium/kinetic relationships corresponding to several possible WDS contamination scenarios. Due to its flexibility, EPANET-C can become a de facto standard tool in WDS quality modeling study for both the industry and academia.
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