Fictitious Component Free - Pressure Deficient Network Algorithm for Water Distribution Network with Variable Minimum and Required Pressure-Heads

• Published in: Water resources management Vol. 35; no. 8; pp. 2585 - 2600
• Main Author: Jinesh Babu, K. S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.06.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: administrative management; Algorithms; Analysis; Atmospheric Sciences; Civil Engineering; Computer applications; Computing time; Distribution; Earth and Environmental Science; Earth Sciences; Environment; Fire control; Fire fighting; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Hydraulics; Hydrogeology; Hydrology/Water Resources; Iterative methods; Nodes; Parameters; Pressure; Pressure head; Simulation; Stress concentration; water; Water distribution; Water engineering; Pressure deficient analysis; Water distribution system; Pressure deficit analysis; Pressure-driven analysis; Water distribution network
• ISSN: 0920-4741; 1573-1650
• DOI: 10.1007/s11269-021-02852-0

The pressure-driven analysis is essential for modelling the pressure deficient condition of water distribution networks. Owing to the complexity, the development of pressure-driven analysis algorithms remains a grey area over the past few decades. As a milestone, EPANET 2.0 got upgraded to EPANET 2.2 with the inclusion of pressure-driven analysis. However, EPANET 2.2 has a shortcoming of using only a single value for the parameters, minimum pressure-head and required pressure-head of the demand nodes. Ironically, when a water distribution network serves for a wide area or during a fire-fighting period, the demand nodes have variable values for each of these parameters. To address this, a new method named Fictitious Component Free - Pressure Deficient Network Algorithm (FCF-PDNA) is proposed in this paper. The FCF-PDNA does not require any additional fictitious components. It can be used for both steady-state and extended period simulations. The proposed method is applied to water distribution networks of different sizes and types and confirmed that the FCF-PDNA could deal with variable values of minimum and required pressure-head. The suitability of this method for different scenarios that will lead to pressure deficient conditions is also analysed and verified. Moreover, the computational time taken by the FCF-PDNA and the EPANET 2.2 pressure-driven analysis is similar.