Using Multi-Objective Optimization To Maximize Multiple Benefits For Sustainable Drainage Design,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Using Multi-Objective Optimization To Maximize Multiple Benefits For Sustainable Drainage Design, Jo-Fai Chow, Dragan A. Savić, David Fortune, Zoran Kapelan, Netsanet Mebrate
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
For many years, drainage design was mainly about providing sufficient network capacity. This traditional approach had been successful with the aid of computer software and technical guidance. However, the drainage design criteria had been evolving due to rapid population growth, urbanisation, climate change and increasing sustainability awareness. Sustainable drainage systems that bring benefits in addition to water management have been recommended as better alternatives to conventional pipes and storages. Although the concepts and good practice guidance had already been communicated to decision makers and public for years, network capacity still remains a key design focus in many circumstances while the …
Leakage Localization In Virtual District Metered Areas With Differential Evolution,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Leakage Localization In Virtual District Metered Areas With Differential Evolution, David Steffelbauer, Markus Günther, Markus Neumayer, Daniela Fuchs-Hanusch
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Leakages in water distribution systems (WDS) can lead to supply interruptions, contaminations and economic losses. Hence finding leaks before they cause severe problems is a crucial task for water utilities. To identify the existence of leaks, night flow measurements in district-metered areas (DMA) are common practice. Therefore, the entire system has to be subdivided in hydraulically separated partial networks. However, many utilities do not want to lose the hydraulic redundancy of their system and hence search for other solutions to identify and allocate leaks. In our research, the effects of leakages on the hydraulic behaviour of WDS are utilized to …
Modeling Of River Flow For The Reservoir Routing,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Modeling Of River Flow For The Reservoir Routing, Nader Jandaghi
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Modeling of flow was made for Central Iran conditions on the example of river Hablerud where water reservoir is planning. Forms of dangerous flood hydrographs are very different because of different precipitation regimes. Practically it is impossible obtain typical design hydrograph for the reservoir routing. The storm precipitations and consequent floods can take place during any within-year interval, when water storage can be different with different probability. Therefore there is necessity to research a big amount of scenarios respecting possible combinations of flood hydrographs and water reservoir storages before floods for estimation of probability of damage. Observed hydrographs (30 years) …
Soft Sensing The Potential Amount Of Calcium Carbonate Precipitate In Drinking Water Distribution Infrastructure And Warm Water Household Appliances,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Soft Sensing The Potential Amount Of Calcium Carbonate Precipitate In Drinking Water Distribution Infrastructure And Warm Water Household Appliances, Dirk Vries, Joost Van Summeren, Benjamin Van Den Akker, Alex Van Der Helm, Ignaz Worm, Peter Van Thienen
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
A soft sensor is developed to predict the potential amount of precipitation of calcium carbonate (CCPP) in warm water household devices and scaling or corrosive behavior in water distribution networks. With the aid of a water supply network model, it is shown that the soft sensor is able to predict CCPP levels at pre-specified downstream nodes using only measurements at a limited set of upstream nodes. Furthermore, the soft sensor consists of a data assimilation algorithm to provide for best estimates of the CCPP and confidence intervals.
Optimizing Operating Rules Of Multiple Source Water Supply Systems In Terms Of System Reliability And Resulting Operating Costs: Survey Of Simulation-Optimization Modeling Approaches Based On General Purpose Tools,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Optimizing Operating Rules Of Multiple Source Water Supply Systems In Terms Of System Reliability And Resulting Operating Costs: Survey Of Simulation-Optimization Modeling Approaches Based On General Purpose Tools, Jordi Meseguer, Gabriela Cembrano, Josep M. Mirats, Eduard Bonada
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Management of a water supply system from the point of view of the conjunctive use of water sources is a very complex problem whose solution is not just obtained using analytical models but also through a negotiation process among stakeholders and in which Public Bodies have a main role. For these reasons, this problem has been addressed using conservative approaches based on simulation models or simulation – linear optimization models parameterized using few parameters. These approaches have certain strengths but also certain drawbacks or constraints. In general these conservative approaches are already covered by existing generalized modelling tools (i.e. Aquator, …
Flow Control By Water Reservoir In Conditions Of Torrential Floods,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Flow Control By Water Reservoir In Conditions Of Torrential Floods, Vitaly Ilinich
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Majority of water reservoirs are located in conditions of torrential floods. Difficulty of flow control by such water reservoirs consists in next: different requirements can take place in same within-year intervals during different years. Irrigation requests the big water storage in reservoir, but during the same time a low water level of the reservoir is more preferred for safe drafts during possible catastrophic flood. Accordingly, main aim of the research is search of profitable and safe rules of flow control by water reservoir. The aim has required of solving of next problems: 1) to choose a duration of within-year interval …
Remote Sensing Data Assimilation In Water Quality Numerical Model Of Eagle Creek Reservoir Using Ensemble Kalman Filter Method,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Remote Sensing Data Assimilation In Water Quality Numerical Model Of Eagle Creek Reservoir Using Ensemble Kalman Filter Method, Amir Javaheri, Meghna Babbar-Sebens
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Numerical models are used as effective tools for simulating complex processes in aquatic systems, such as hydrodynamic and water quality processes. The accuracy of the model is reliant on the multiple model parameters and variables which need to be calibrated and regularly updated to reproduce changing conditions accurately. Different sources of observations such as remote sensing data or in-situ monitoring technologies can improve the model accuracy by providing benefits of individual monitoring technology within the model updating process. Remote sensing technology can provide the spatially dense surface temperature of water body, while in-situ technology is able to prepare more frequent …
The Effect Of Flood Reduction And Water Conservation Of Decentralized Rainwater Management System,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
The Effect Of Flood Reduction And Water Conservation Of Decentralized Rainwater Management System, Dong Geun Kwak, Moo Young Han
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Climate change and increase of surface runoff by urbanization caused the urban flooding. Therefore, a sustainable new paradigm is required to recover sound water circulation and overcome the limitations of the existing water management system vulnerable to flooding. Recently Rainwater management is widely known and its legal obligation is strengthened to improve the control capacity for flooding reduction and water conservation in urban areas. Multipurpose DRMS(Decentralized Rainwater Management System) is a new paradigm proposed and recommended by NEMA(National Emergency Management Agency) for both flood control and water conservation. In this study, a flood prone area in Suwon of South Korea …
Comparison Of Statistical Failure Models To Support Sewer System Operation,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Comparison Of Statistical Failure Models To Support Sewer System Operation, Maria Torres, Juan Pablo Rodriguez, Joao P. Leitao
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Currently, achieving appropriate operative performance of water infrastructure has become a high priority in urbanized areas. Particularly, providing reliable sewerage service is central for human well-being and its development (Kleidorfer, et al. 2013). Having that wastewater system management is an increasingly complex task due to a number of hardly predictable factors (e.g. deterioration of system components and climate variability), recent research efforts have been focusing on developing methods to identify optimum proactive rehabilitation and maintenance strategies, some of which are based on the identification of the sewerage structures in most need of attention. To meet such a goal, different forecast …
An Analysis Of Discharge And Water Level Changes Due To Weir (In The Case Of The Waegwan And Nakdong Station In South Korea),
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
An Analysis Of Discharge And Water Level Changes Due To Weir (In The Case Of The Waegwan And Nakdong Station In South Korea), Yonghyeon Gwon, Dongseop Lee, Dohyun Kim, Sungeun Jung, Seungkwon Jung, Hosun Lee
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
ABSTRACT Our country, Korea, lacks the per capita water endowment because of the high population density and geographical characteristics. Therefore, The 4 Rivers Project has been promoted since 2009. In order to control effectively drought or floods caused by abnormal climate and strong rainfall in summer, it was done and completed in 2013. The Nakdong River is the longest in the 4 Rivers Project, which it was conducted among the country's major rivers, and a lot of hydraulic structures were installed. we selected Nakdong and Weagwan stations which are located in the Nakdong River. Because the change was smaller there …
Assessing Rehabilitation Strategies Of Urban Drainage Systems Based On Future Scenarios Of Urbanization,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Assessing Rehabilitation Strategies Of Urban Drainage Systems Based On Future Scenarios Of Urbanization, Arlex Sanchez-Torres, Zoran Vojinović, Roland K. Price
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Population growth and urbanisation are creating a big need to improve the planning processes and management of urban infrastructures. Urban drainage networks are one of the vital services needed for any urban area, modelling its growth and expansion is a challenge because of the dynamics of the system. This work describes the integration of a cellular automata model, to simulate urban land use changes, with algorithms to deduct the future layout of the drainage network and with SWMM 5.0 as the hydraulic engine to assess the performance of the drainage systems in the current condition and in the future. The …
Spectral Clustering And Support Vector Classification For Localizing Leakages In Water Distribution Networks – The Icewater Project Approach,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Spectral Clustering And Support Vector Classification For Localizing Leakages In Water Distribution Networks – The Icewater Project Approach, Antonio Candelieri, Dante Conti, Davide Soldi, Francesco Archetti
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
This paper presents a framework based on hydraulic simulation and machine learning for supporting Water Distribution Network (WDN) managers in localizing leakages, while reducing time and costs for investigation, intervention and rehabilitation. As a first step, hydraulic simulation is used to run different leakage scenarios by introducing a leak on each pipe, in turn, and varying its severity. As output of each scenario run, pressure and flow variations in correspondence of the actual monitoring points into the WDN, and with respect to the faultless model, are stored. Scenarios clustering is aimed at grouping together leaks generating similar effects, in terms …
Economical And Systematical Evaluation On Rainfall Harvesting System (Case Study : Rainfall Harvesting System Designed In Taebaek City, Republic Of Korea),
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Economical And Systematical Evaluation On Rainfall Harvesting System (Case Study : Rainfall Harvesting System Designed In Taebaek City, Republic Of Korea), Seungkwon Jung, Changdeok Jang, Jiwon Jung, Hosun Lee, Yonghyeon Gwon
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Recently, climate change has caused drought to become more frequent and is becoming one of the serious natural disasters, resulting damages in infrastructure facilities, economy and private property losses etc. Taebaek city of Gangwon-do lies in the northeast Korean Peninsula along the steep mountain slopes, all the way to the sea. Thu, this city exhibit the Marine Climatic Characteristics. During the past 10 years, the average rainfall of Taebaek city is 849.9mm/year, which is less than the average rainfall for the whole country (1,274mm/year). This research is still ongoing. The next assessment will be on the construction cost of rainfall …
Vulnerability Assessment Of Water Distribution Systems Using Directed And Undirected Graph Theory,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Vulnerability Assessment Of Water Distribution Systems Using Directed And Undirected Graph Theory, Kegong Diao, Raziyeh Farmani, Guangtao Fu, David Butler
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Vulnerability assessment is a promising approach to identifying critical components of complex systems. In such systems, critical components could be crucial links and strategic locations for management and control. Managing those components better could, in turn, improve or reinforce a system’s resilience to shock events. However, fully comprehensive vulnerability assessments cannot be guaranteed as enumerating all possible shock events in complex systems is computationally intensive and almost infeasible. Consequently, the important role of some components might be neglected. This paper explores the feasibility of using a dual approach vulnerability assessment for water distribution systems (WDSs). Specifically, complex network analysis (e.g. …
Extending The Finnish Flood Information System To Include Flood Risk Mapping,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Extending The Finnish Flood Information System To Include Flood Risk Mapping, Mikko Sane, Atte Virtanen, Riikka Repo
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The sound flood risk management needs more and more effective information systems. In addition to flood risk management planning, the past floods in Finland have proved that up-to-date risk information is essential in emergencies. Therefore in addition to the water system forecasts and flood warnings, the information on potential exposed elements and flood damages are playing a significant role in maintaining an overview of the national flood situation. The national flood information system of Finland, established in 2006 and extended since 2010, brings together the essential information on floods under a single user interface. At the Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, …
River Flows Prediction By Ensemble Model,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
River Flows Prediction By Ensemble Model, Milan Cisty, Celar Lubomir
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
This review paper will deal with the possibilities of applying the R programming language in water resources and hydrologic applications in education and research. The objective of this paper is to present some features and packages that make R a powerful environment for analyzing data from the hydrology and water resources management fields, hydrological modelling, the post-processing of the results of such modelling, and other tasks.
The Benthic Geoecology Model Within The Modular System For Shelves And Coasts (Mossco),
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
The Benthic Geoecology Model Within The Modular System For Shelves And Coasts (Mossco), Mohammad Hassan Nasermoaddeli, Carsten Lemmen, Richard Hofmeister, Frank Koesters, Knut Klingbeil
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The Modular System for Shelves and Coasts (MOSSCO) integrates physical, biological, chemical and geological models of shelves and coasts for the North Sea and Baltic Sea in an exchangeable way. The MOSSCO software forms a coupling framework for exchanging data and models, which distinguishes between physical domains (Earth System compartments such as the benthic and pelagic zone) and processes (such as benthic geochemistry, physical erosion and biological stabilization). Information exchange across physical domains with different grids and time steps are managed using the ESMF (Earth System Modelling Framework), whereas coupling of processes within individual modules is achieved using FABM (Framework …
Numerical Modeling Of Otec Thermal Discharges In Coastal Waters,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Numerical Modeling Of Otec Thermal Discharges In Coastal Waters, Jongkyu Kim, Hyeon-Ju Kim
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Thermal discharge from industrial outfalls is categorized into two major classes based on their density. First class is the effluent that has a higher density than that of the ambient water body. The second class is the effluent that has a lower density than that of the ambient water body. Due to the effect of several factors such as tides, waves, winds, river discharges, thermal effluents etc., the mixing characteristics of OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion) thermal plume is much complicated. In this study we try to identify the mixing and dispersion characteristics of coastal waters to consider their physical …
Hydraulic Modelling And Calibration Of The Upper Silesian Waterworks In Poland,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Hydraulic Modelling And Calibration Of The Upper Silesian Waterworks In Poland, Patryk Wójtowicz, Andrzej Pawlak, Jan Studziński
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
Our paper presents the preliminary results of hydraulic modelling and calibration of a complex water transfer and distribution system of Upper Silesian Waterworks PLC (USW). A new approach to quasi real-time model calibration and validation in connection with an integrated ICT system will be presented. The USW is the biggest water company in Poland and one of the biggest in Europe delivering water to over 3 million customers in Silesian Metropolis, on the area covering about 4.3 thousand square kilometres, with the main water network which is over 880 km long. This water distribution system incorporates central and western sub-regions …
Stochastic Assessment Of Environmental Flows In Semiarid Environments,
2014
City University of New York (CUNY)
Stochastic Assessment Of Environmental Flows In Semiarid Environments, Cristina Aguilar, Marta Egüen, Jose María Perales, Miguel A. Losada, María José Polo
International Conference on Hydroinformatics
The regimen of environmental flows (EF) must be included as terms of environmental demand in the management of water resources. Even though there are numerous methods for the computation of EF, the criteria applied at different steps in the calculation process are quite subjective whereas the results are fixed values that must be meet by water planners. This study presents a friendly-user tool for the assessment of the probability of compliance of a certain EF scenario with the natural regimen in a semiarid area in southern Spain. 250 replications of a 25-yr period of different hydrological variables (rainfall, minimum and …
