Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Pastor-Jabaloyes, Laura; Mercedes, Angel V.; Gavara-Tortes, Francesc Josep(MDPI AG, 2020-09)
[EN] Accurate water consumption measurement of customers is a crucial component of water utility sustainability. During the last decade, sophisticated measuring technologies without moving components, known as solid-state ...
Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Cobacho Jordán, Ricardo; Soriano Olivares, Javier; Jimenez-Redal, Ruben(MDPI AG, 2018)
[EN] The manuscript describes a simplified methodology with which to assess the economic
level of apparent losses (ELAL) in a water utility. This economic point corresponds to the break-even
point for which the marginal ...
AL-Washali, Taha; Mahardani, Meidy; Sharma, Saroj; Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Kennedy, Maria(Elsevier, 2020-12)
[EN] Intermittent supply is common worldwide. It triggers households with piped connection to adjust the supply scheme by the use of a water tank with a float valve (FV) at the entrance, which has a major influence on the ...
Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Gavara-Tortes, Francesc Josep; Soriano Olivares, Javier; Pastor-Jabaloyes, Laura(MDPI AG, 2018)
[EN] Single-jet meters are one of the most frequently used domestic meters that can be found in water distribution systems. Like any other water meter technology, they have significant metrological limitations that prevent ...
Arregui de la Cruz, Francisco; Balaguer Garrigós, Miguel; Soriano Olivares, Javier; García-Serra García, Jorge(Taylor & Francis, 2015-07-03)
Water meter measuring errors vary depending on the water flow rate. The difference between water actually consumed and registered by a meter will differ depending on how water consumption is distributed by flow rates. ...