Design of water distribution system by optimization using reliability considerations

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In spite of a wide research, design of water distribution networks are not realized using optimization techniques. One reason for this fact is, design of water distribution networks is evaluated, mostly, as a least-cost optimization problem where pipe diameters being the only decision variables. The other motivation for preferring the traditional modeling practice is that, existing optimization algorithms are not presented to the user as friendly as it should be. In fact, water distribution systems are very complex systems such that it is not easy to obtain least-cost design systems considering other constraints such as reliability, in addition to classical constraints related to hydraulic feasibility, satisfaction of nodal demands and requirement of nodal pressures. This study presents a user-friendly package concerning the design of water distribution networks by optimization using reliability considerations; this works employs the algorithm proposed by Goulter and Coals (1986). At the end, a skeletonized network design is offered; various costs are estimated in regard to the degree of reliability.

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Hydraulic engineering.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/15099

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T. Akdoğan, “Design of water distribution system by optimization using reliability considerations,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2005.