Print Email Facebook Twitter Advanced control of a water supply system: A case study Title Advanced control of a water supply system: A case study Author Bakker, M. Rajewicz, T. Kien, H. Vreeburg, J.H.G. Rietveld, L.C. Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Water Management Date 2014-04-01 Abstract Conventional automatic production flow control and pump pressure control of water supply systems are robust and simple: production flow is controlled based on the level in the clear water reservoir and pump pressure is controlled on a static set-point. Recently, more advanced computer-based control methods were developed in which production flow is controlled by using a short-term water demand forecasting model and pressure is controlled by a dynamic pressure control module. To assess the differences between conventional and advanced control, we examined operational data of water treatment plantGruszczyn that supplies drinking water to a part of the city of Pozna?, Poland. We compared two periods of three weeks of conventional and advanced control. The comparison showed that with advanced control the variation in the production flow was 83% lower, and the pump pressure of the clear water pumps was 29% lower. The lower pressure resulted in 20% less background leakage and the overall system's energy costs were 11.5% lower. Subject optimal controlpressure managementwater demand forecasting To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44cf1a8c-a278-493a-a67e-d983f5ad5c0b Publisher IWA Publishing Embargo date 2015-04-01 ISSN 1751-231X Source Water Practice & Technology, 9 (2), 2014; Authors version Other version https://doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2014.030 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2014 IWA Publishing Files PDF 315551.pdf 774.89 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:44cf1a8c-a278-493a-a67e-d983f5ad5c0b/datastream/OBJ/view