A new breakthrough in high-performance modeling has now
been realized by Denver Water, the largest water utility
between the Mississippi River and the West Coast. H2ONET
was used to successfully build and calibrate a 136,377
pipe model with 2,285
control valves, 204 pumps, 56 tanks and
three treatment plants with a combined capacity
of 645 mgd. The detailed model accurately simulated fire
flow conditions at 25,000 hydrant
locations for Denver Water. Established in 1918, the utility
serves more than a million customers via a complex 2,500-
mile system of pipes.
In a demanding test of its exceptional power and stability,
the detailed all-pipe H2ONET
model was run continuously more than 50,000 times
and consistently produced accurate results in a timely
manner throughout the process, completing each
run in an average of less than four seconds.
This significant achievement represents a milestone in
water distribution network modeling for water utilities
worldwide.
“Because all-pipe modeling best reflects actual system
behavior, it is becoming the norm in the industry,”
says Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D, President and Chief Operating
Officer of MWH Soft, Inc. “First, it ensures that
users of both GIS and asset/maintenance management software
applications are sharing the same seamlessly integrated
data. Second, all-pipe modeling greatly improves the integrity
of the results. This greatly enhances the ability of water
utilities to accurately assess hydraulic and water quality
conditions in their distribution systems, evaluate fire
protection, effectively plan critical flushing and sampling
programs, strategize main replacement and rehabilitation
projects, and develop sound, cost-effective system improvements
and security measures. We are pleased that H2ONET
delivers these benefits, and proud of this new performance
achievement.”
Arnold Strasser, P.E., Project Manager for Denver Water,
was greatly impressed with the results. “We were
quite pleased with the speed and reliability of your product
in analyzing our all-pipe hydraulic model for fire flows.
With over 25,000 fire hydrants analyzed on a 110,000 pipe
model, H2ONET performed over 50,000 separate
automated analyses flawlessly and extremely fast! Keep
up the great work; your products continually add productivity
to our daily lives.”
With this decisive performance, H2ONET has
raised the standard of all-pipe water distribution modeling
to new levels of reliability and performance, giving water
utilities significant boosts in productivity and efficiencies.
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