Locating Pipe Bursts in a District Metered Area Via Online Hydraulic Modelling. (2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Okeya, Isaac; Hutton, Christopher; Kapelan, Zoran
• Is Part Of: Procedia engineering. Volume 119(2015)
• Page Start: 101
• Page End: 110
• Publication Date: 2015
• Subjects: Burst Detection -- Burst Localisation -- Online Hydraulic Modelling -- Water Distribution System; Engineering -- Congresses; Engineering -- Periodicals; Engineering; Conference proceedings; Periodicals; 620.005
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.08.859
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1877-7058

Abstract

Abstract: 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.