[EN] Acoustic sensors are widely used for monitoring urbanized water distribution networks (WDNs) to detect and localize pipe leakages. Since their inception, few research studies have focused on developing a generic, ...
Stanton, Gemma; Ayala-Cabrera, David(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-03-06)
[EN] Critical infrastructures such as water distribution networks (WDNs) require reliable and affordable information at a reasonable cost to address challenges that can negatively affect their operation. Inadequate knowledge ...
Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Arrieta-Pastrana, Alfonso; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.(MDPI AG, 2024-04)
[EN] Water utilities face the challenge of addressing physical leaks generated from the aging of water distribution systems and the need for more innovative practices to manage water infrastructure efficiently. Water ...
Aguilera Chamorro, Melany Marcela(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-10-21)
[ES] La modelación o uso de modelos es una herramienta muy común en el estudio de cualquier tipo de sistemas. Los modelos matemáticos son esquemas que buscan representar y reproducir, de la manera más fiel y completa ...
Fanelli, Michele; Cabrera Marcet, Enrique(American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016-01)
From a linearized form of the equations of unsteady (transient) motion in an open channel of uniform cross section using the well-known technique of the characteristic lines, it is shown that under a set of not-too-restrictive ...
Mora Meliá, Daniel; Gutiérrez Bahamondes, Jimmy H.; Iglesias Rey, Pedro Luis; Martínez-Solano, F. Javier(MDPI, 2016-12)
[EN] Different Population-based Algorithms (PbAs) have been used in recent years to solve
all types of optimization problems related to water resource issues. However, the performances of
these techniques depend heavily ...
Montaña Olivares, Álvaro Raúl(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-10-04)
[ES] El incremento de la población global y el crecimiento económico han ocasionado un aumento significativo en el consumo de agua y energía. Este fenómeno, combinado con la disponibilidad de recursos y la gestión actual ...
Mohabbat, Hamidreza; Meyer, David(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-03-06)
[EN] Intermittent water supply (IWS) networks are a problematic reality for over one billion people. Despite their drawbacks, IWS networks persist, and projects to convert them to continuous supply often fail. Here we ...
[EN] Infrastructures in urban areas can have spatial and also functional correlation. Water distribution networks (WDNs) along with other infrastructures therefore constitute a complex and interlinked multi-utility system ...
Silva-Rubio, Sergio A.; Salgueiro, Yamisleydi; Mora Melia, Daniel; Gutierrez-Bahamondes, Jimmy H.(MDPI AG, 2024-07)
[EN] Water distribution networks (WDNs) are vital for communities, facing threats like climate change and aging infrastructure. Optimizing WDNs for energy and water savings is challenging due to their complexity. In ...
Hernández Cervantes, Daniel; López Jiménez, Petra Amparo; Arciniega Nevárez, José Antonio; Delgado Galván, Xitlali; Jiménez Magaña, Martín Rubén; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Mora Rodríguez, José de Jesús(MDPI AG, 2021-02-09)
[EN] In Water Distribution Networks (WDN), the water quality could become vulnerable due
to several operational and temporal factors. Epanet is a hydraulic and water quality simulation
software, widely used, to preserve ...
Garmendia, Maddi; López de Armentia, Teresa; Cubero, Gorka; Pellejero, Idoya; Solaberrieta, Leire; Santos, Fernando(Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-09-28)
[EN] The current challenges for the construction of a more fair and sustainable society require professionals capable of analyzing problems with a comprehensive vision and a critical spirit. The approaches and tools of ...
Gutierrez-Bahamondes, Jimmy H.; Salgueiro, Yamisleydi; Silva-Rubio, Sergio A.; Alsina, Marco A.; Mora-Melia, Daniel; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.(MDPI AG, 2019-10)
[EN] Efficient design and management of water distribution networks is critical for conservation of water resources and minimization of both energy requirements and maintenance costs. Several computational routines have ...
Salguero Barceló, Francisco Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-12-13)
[ES] La sectorización de las redes ha demostrado ser una metodología estratégica en la reducción de los volúmenes incontrolados fugados, considerado uno de los principales problemas a los que tienen que enfrentarse diariamente ...
Anchieta, Thomaz F. de F.; Santos, Saulo A. R.; Brentan, Bruno M.; Carpitella, Silvia; Izquierdo Sebastián, Joaquín(Elsevier, 2021-09-29)
[EN] The implementation of expansion projects of water networks supplying growing cities is deemed to be a complex decision-making problem involving both technical aspects and expert knowledge. Management and control ...
Bonilla-Correa, Dalia M.; Coronado-Hernández, Oscar E.; Arrieta-Pastrana, Alfonso; Fuertes-Miquel, Vicente S.; Pérez-Sánchez, Modesto; Ramos, Helena M.(MDPI AG, 2024-11-08)
[EN] Emptying processes are operations frequently required in hydraulic installations by water utilities. These processes can result in drops to sub-atmospheric pressure pulses, which may lead to pipeline collapse depending ...
[EN] Operations of water distribution networks (WDNs) are monitored daily via installed data loggers, where the collated hydraulic data can be leveraged to improve the system’s operations over time, and to minimize total ...
[EN] Emptying pipelines can be critical in many water pipelines because subatmospheric pressure troughs are reached due to the expansion of entrapped air, which could cause considerable damage to the system depending on ...
Mas Colina, Javier(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-09-28)
[ES] La Comunidad de Regantes El Palmeral (Pedralba) abastece de agua para riego a unas 1110 ha de cultivo donde principalmente predominan los cítricos de diferentes variedades. Sus instalaciones tanto de captación como ...
Bejarano Cevallos, Danny Rodrigo(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-12-14)
[ES] El objetivo de este trabajo consiste en realizar el proyecto y planificación de una red de abastecimiento en un área de 12.80 Ha compuesta por 372 viviendas distribuidas en 338 lotes, tomando en cuenta que se prevé ...