Validation of a Model for Operation Optimization of a Regional Water Supply System

8 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Claudio Arena, Marcella Cannarozzo, Antonino Fortunato, Alessio Lombardo, Ignazio Scolaro and Mario Rosario Mazzola

Abstract

Sustainable use of water resources requires a modern approach for complex water systems management based on system’s modeling, as unsung operation alternatives may only be devised and tested through a model. The now available IT computing tools enable setting the traditional modelling methodologies for planning and operation of such systems in a new framework. The present work deals with the development of decision support models for optimizing the operation of complex water supply systems with multiple uses and focuses on the validation of the optimization model of the regional water supply systems managed by an Italian water utility. The software used is Aquator, a state-of-the-art commercial tool for generic water resources system simulation and operational optimization. The paper shows and comments the results of the validation of the model and uses them to draw some general principles for the validation of such kind of models: in fact, operational optimization models are conceived for the enhancement of systems management and performance. Consequently, while on the one side model output is expected to reflect the actual state of the system, on the other it can point out significant management enhancements.

Keyphrases: model validation., operational optimization., regional water supply systems.

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 79-86.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/lc5z
	https://doi.org/10.29007/tp1k

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Validation_Model_Operation_Optimization,
  author    = {Claudio Arena and Marcella Cannarozzo and Antonino Fortunato and Alessio Lombardo and Ignazio Scolaro and Mario Rosario Mazzola},
  title     = {Validation of a Model for Operation Optimization of a Regional Water Supply System},
  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/lc5z},
  doi       = {10.29007/tp1k},
  pages     = {79-86},
  year      = {2018}}

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