Practical Application of Optimization Techniques to Drinking Water Distribution Problems

8 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Peter van Thienen, Ina Vertommen and Karel van Laarhoven

Abstract

Numerical tools for the optimization of several aspects of drinking water distribution networks have been around for some time now and are widely discussed in the scientific literature. However, their successful practical application remains a challenge, especially when combining multiple objectives and operational boundary conditions. In this contribution, we describe a number of optimization cases, including the optimization approaches applied. We discuss the technical and practical challenges that are faced when applying numerical optimization techniques to real world problems of water utilities.

Keyphrases: drinking water distribution networks, numerical optimization, practical issues

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 2136-2143.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/L9Wk
	https://doi.org/10.29007/b54r

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Practical_Application_Optimization_Techniques,
  author    = {Peter van Thienen and Ina Vertommen and Karel van Laarhoven},
  title     = {Practical Application of Optimization Techniques to Drinking Water Distribution Problems},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/L9Wk},
  doi       = {10.29007/b54r},
  pages     = {2136-2143},
  year      = {2018}}

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