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Showcase - H2ONET Makes History With New World Modeling
Performance Record for Denver Water |
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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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