Multiple Leakage Detection and Isolation in District Metering Areas Using a Multistage Approach
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 148, Issue 6
Abstract
Hydraulic accidents or abnormal situations, also known as leakages, cause not only water losses but also service interruptions and other negative effects. To facilitate the rapid response of water utilities and reduce water losses caused by undiscovered leakages, a timely, efficient, and accurate detection method is required. This paper describes a novel framework for multiple overlapping leak detection and isolation in the water distribution system. The proposed method has three stages: an estimation stage to extract leak-induced data from the huge monitoring data, an identification stage to detect the presence of overlapping leaks from multiscale difference series, and a localization stage to pinpoint the leak hotspots. The proposed method detects seven leakages in real-life networks and localizes 16 overlapping leakages with an economic score of €167,981 in L-town 2019. Comparisons show that the framework can accurately detect it in a fast response time and effectively localize the leaking pipeline with good applicability.
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Data Availability Statement
The case data and the model used in this study can be made available from BattleDIM 2020, and the codes for the proposed method in Spyder3.7 can be made available by the corresponding author by request.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51879139).
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Received: May 16, 2021
Accepted: Jan 26, 2022
Published online: Mar 21, 2022
Published in print: Jun 1, 2022
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