Water supply pipe dimensioning using hydraulic power dissipation

International Conference on Civil Engineering and Infrastructural Issues in Emerging Economies 2017

土木建筑工程;经济学

Sreemathy, J.R.^1 ; Rashmi, G.^1 ; Suribabu, C.R.^1

School of Civil Engineering, SASTRA University, Thanjavur

613 401, India^1

关键词: Commercial software;    Consulting firms;    Design engineers;    Optimization techniques;    Practicing engineers;    Stochastic algorithms;    Trial and error;    Water distribution networks;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/80/1/012064/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/80/1/012064

学科分类：土木及结构工程学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Proper sizing of the pipe component of water distribution networks play an important role in the overall design of the any water supply system. Several approaches have been applied for the design of networks from an economical point of view. Traditional optimization techniques and population based stochastic algorithms are widely used to optimize the networks. But the use of these approaches is mostly found to be limited to the research level due to difficulties in understanding by the practicing engineers, design engineers and consulting firms. More over due to non-availability of commercial software related to the optimal design of water distribution system,it forces the practicing engineers to adopt either trial and error or experience-based design. This paper presents a simple approach based on power dissipation in each pipeline as a parameter to design the network economically, but not to the level of global minimum cost.