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InfoWater Scheduler is designed to assist water distribution
system operators and training new operators in selecting
cost-effective pumping and valve policies to reduce
operational costs, provide more reliable and safer operations,
and consistently deliver high quality water. Using the
power of genetic algorithms (enhanced with advanced
Elitist and Global Search Control strategies), InfoWater
Scheduler quickly identifies the optimal operational
policy that will best meet your target system hydraulic
and water quality performance criteria at maximum cost
savings. The operating policy (or schedule) for a pump,
valve and pipe (e.g., interzone water transfer, water
purchase from an outside agency) represents a set of
time-dependent control rules that indicate when a particular
pump, valve and pipe or group of pumps, valves and pipes
should be turned on or off over a specified period of
time (usually 24 hours). The system operational criteria
prescribe lower and upper limits on system pressures,
tank and water quality (water age) levels, maximum pipe
velocities, maximum pump (and valve) flows or volumes,
alternative supply sources, and other system constraints
aimed at ensuring safe, reliable operations. Both energy
consumption ($/kW.h) and demand charges ($/max kW) are
considered.
InfoWater Scheduler even lets you improve operational
performance further with strategies like matching your
desired tank trajectory curves (filling and draining
cycles), evaluating various rate schedules, and optimizing
water quality conditions and storage/pumping tradeoffs.
InfoWater Scheduler lets you evaluate the operational
efficiency of your drinking water distribution system
with unprecedented precision - and discover new ways
of significantly reducing operational costs and assuring
more reliable system performance with the highest quality
water.
Application Dependent
- InfoWater Suite.
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