Locating Pipe Bursts in a District Metered Area Via Online Hydraulic Modelling

This paper presents an online burst location method which extends the recently developed methodology [1] for online burst detection in Water Distribution Systems (WDS) at the District Metered Area (DMA) level. This is achieved by a combination of data algorithms that make use of flow and pressure re...

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Published in:Procedia engineering 2015, Vol.119, p.101-110
Main Authors: Okeya, Isaac, Hutton, Christopher, Kapelan, Zoran
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burst Detection
Burst Localisation
Online Hydraulic Modelling
Water Distribution System
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Summary:This paper presents an online burst location method which extends the recently developed methodology [1] for online burst detection in Water Distribution Systems (WDS) at the District Metered Area (DMA) level. This is achieved by a combination of data algorithms that make use of flow and pressure residuals between the online hydraulic model predictions and corresponding WDS observations. The leak location methodology was tested on a series of simulated pipe burst events in a real-life UK DMA. The results obtained show that the new methodology is effective in determining burst locations in near real-time and satisfactorily estimates the burst flows.
ISSN:1877-7058
1877-7058
DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.859