[EN] The availability of instantaneous data on water consumption in water utilities of water distribution systems has been increasing due to the increase in the number of customers with smart meters. The analysis of these ...
Taormina, R.; Galelli, S.; Tippenhauer, N. O.; Salomons, E.; Ostfeld, A.; Eliades, D. G.; Aghashahi, M.; Sundararajan, R.; Pourahmadi, M.; Banks, M. K.; Brentan, Bruno M.; Campbell-Gonzalez, Enrique; Lima, G.; Manzi, D.; Ayala Cabrera, David; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Montalvo Arango, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2018)
[EN] The BATtle of the Attack Detection ALgorithms (BATADAL) is the most recent competition on planning and management of
water networks undertaken within the Water Distribution Systems Analysis Symposium. The goal of the ...
Conejos Fuertes, P.; Martínez Alzamora, Fernando; Hervás-Carot, M.; Alonso Campos, J. C.(Taylor & Francis, 2020-09-13)
[EN] Digital Twins (DTs) are starting to be exploited to improve the management of water distribution systems (WDSs) and, in the future, they will be crucial for decision making. In this paper, the authors propose several ...
Palau Estevan, Carmen Virginia; Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Carlos Alberola, María del Mar(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2012)
The following work presents a multivariate statistical technique applied to the control of water inflows into district metering areas
(DMAs) of urban networks. This technique, called principal-component analysis (PCA), ...
This work addresses the problem of water network division into
district metered areas by the use of clustering respect to multiple views. In our
application will use two data perspectives: one of these will be associated ...
[EN] Service quality and efficiency of urban systems have been dramatically boosted by various high technologies for real-time monitoring and remote control, and have also gained privileged space in water distribution. ...
Delgado Sandoval, Gustavo Alonso(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-11-29)
[ES] En la mayoría de los países en vías de desarrollo de América Latina, los servicios de agua potable son deficientes por diversos motivos. Uno de ellos es el suministro intermitente. Este modo de operación no garantiza ...
López Aburto, Carlos Samuel(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020-10-13)
[ES] Los cambios demográficos y el crecimiento exponencial que han experimentado los centros urbanos en las últimas décadas han requerido la incorporación de principios como sostenibilidad (para las etapas de diseño) y ...
Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto, Edevar, Jr.; Meirelles, Gustavo(John Wiley & Sons, 2022-04)
[EN] The design of district metered areas (DMA) in potable water supply systems is of paramount importance for water utilities to properly manage their systems. Concomitant to their main objective, namely, to deliver quality ...
[EN] Hydraulic solvers for the simulation of flows and pressures in water distribution
systems (WDS) are used extensively, and their computational performance is key when
considering optimization problems. This paper ...
Navarrete-López, Claudia Fernanda; Herrera Fernández, Antonio Manuel; Brentan, B. M.; Luvizotto Jr., E.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(MDPI AG, 2019-02)
[EN] Epidemiology-based models have shown to have successful adaptations to deal with challenges coming from various areas of Engineering, such as those related to energy use or asset management. This paper deals with urban ...
Martínez-Solano, F. Javier; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luis; Mora Meliá, Daniel; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.(Elsevier, 2017)
[EN] A mathematical model is a powerful tool for simulating different scenarios that occur in a water distribution network without
making physical experimentation. According to the objectives, a model can be classified ...
[EN] This paper combines such powerful non-destructive technique as ground penetrating radar (GPR) with intelligent data
analysis in order to acquire new knowledge on mapping/monitoring/verification systems aimed at initially ...
This report presents guidance for the evaluation and selection of Water Demand Management (WDM) type technologies for the effective and efficient reduction of water consumption for different water stakeholders - householders, ...
Knowledge of buried infrastructure is essential for management and decision-making in water utility companies. To pinpoint the benefits of thermography, a case study was conducted, namely, thermal images were taken under ...
Decision making in engineering is becoming increasingly complex due to the large number
of alternatives and multiple conflicting goals. Powerful decision-support expert systems
powered by suitable software are increasingly ...
Hydraulic solvers for the simulation of flows and pressures in water distribution
systems (WDS) are used extensively, and their computational performance is key
when considering optimization problems. This paper presents ...
Carpitella, Silvia; Brentan, B. M.; Montalvo Arango, Idel; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Certa, A.(IWA Publishing, 2019-08-13)
[EN] This work presents a multi-criteria-based approach to automatically select specific non-dominated solutions from a Pareto front previously obtained using multi-objective optimization to find optimal solutions for pump ...
This report summarizes activities in TRUST WP4 addressing optimum operation performance of water supply systems with respect to safety, environmental impacts and cost-efficiency. Optimization of water treatment plant and ...
Manzi, D.; Brentan, B. M.; Meirelles, G.; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín; Luvizotto Jr., E.(MDPI AG, 2019-11)
[EN] A large volume of the water produced for public supply is lost in the systems between sources and consumers. An important-in many cases the greatest-fraction of these losses are physical losses, mainly related to leaks ...