Smart pressure management extension for EPANET: source code enhancement with a dynamic pressure reducing valve model

Mehmet Melih Koşucu; Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel

doi:10.2166/hydro.2022.172

Smart pressure management extension for EPANET: source code enhancement with a dynamic pressure reducing valve model

Mehmet Melih Koşucu^*, Mehmet Cüneyd Demirel

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Applying pressure management reduces lost water and excessive hydraulic pressures in water distribution networks (WDNs). There are currently four different types of pressure management in the literature, i.e. fixed outlet, time modulated, flow modulated, and remote node modulated. The primary device used in pressure management is the pressure reducing valve (PRV) that dynamically controls the outlet pressure by moving up and down its main valve element. In this study, we firstly introduce the dynamic PRV model with four different pressure management types to the source code of EPANET v3.1 software and assess the effect of different valve opening schemes on pressure graphs and leakage quantities. The results showed that dynamic PRV significantly reduces lost water amounts and excessive hydraulic pressures in the WDN when valve opening is continuously adjusted. Our smart PM extension implemented into EPANET v3.1 software is publicly available in Zenodo repositories (https://zenodo.org/record/6243078).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	642-658
Number of pages	17
Journal	Journal of Hydroinformatics
Volume	24
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2166/hydro.2022.172
Publication status	Published - 1 May 2022

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We acknowledge the financial support by Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council (TÜBÍTAK) grant number 118C020 and the National Center for High-Performance Computing of Turkey (UHeM) under grant number 1007292019. The constructive review comments of Ezio Todini and two anonymous reviewers significantly improved this study. We are thankful for the contributions of Fatih Buğrahan Yorgun to the Graphical Abstract.

Funders	Funder number
National Center for High-Performance Computing of Turkey
Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council
TÜBÍTAK	118C020
Ulusal Yüksek Başarımlı Hesaplama Merkezi, Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi	1007292019

Keywords

EPANET
hydraulic modeling
pressure management
water distribution networks

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