Case Study of Use of User-Friendly Algorithm for the Balanced Design of a Multiple-Source Water Distribution System
Publication: World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2024
ABSTRACT
When designing a water distribution system, meeting the needs of the people for the least cost is crucial. These costs consist of many parts, primarily the initial material and construction costs, but also the energy pumping costs over the lifetime of the project. Network modeling was performed here to consider all possible alternatives of supplying users with multiple sources to give designers a simple algorithm for design option selection. Selection was made based on a balance between reliability of water supply and the minimal lifecycle cost. The easy-to-use algorithm, entitled the balanced reliability-lifecycle algorithm (BRLA), is demonstrated on a real system in a village in Vanuatu.
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World Environmental and Water Resources Congress 2024
Pages: 900 - 905
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Published online: May 16, 2024
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Algorithms
- Benefit cost ratios
- Business management
- Case studies
- Construction costs
- Construction engineering
- Construction management
- Construction materials
- Design (by type)
- Engineering fundamentals
- Engineering materials (by type)
- Financial management
- Hydraulic design
- Hydraulic engineering
- Hydraulics
- Materials engineering
- Mathematics
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- Project management
- Research methods (by type)
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water supply
- Water supply systems
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