Keywords
Sectorization, intermittent water supply, clustering techniques, decision-making
Location
Session C1: VI Data Mining for Environmental Sciences Session
Start Date
13-7-2016 3:10 PM
End Date
13-7-2016 3:30 PM
Abstract
Intermittent water supply is the form of access to water in many countries around the world. It is very common that design, operation, maintenance and, in general, decision-making in these systems are performed using tools originally developed for systems with continuous supply, which are not adequate. However, these tools can be reasonably applied to network sectorization of intermittent supply networks. We propose a sectorization methodology for networks that do not have the possibility of working with continuous supply. In addition, to ensure sufficient pressure, sector design must guarantee equity in the supply. Furthermore, it is not enough to establish sector delimitation as part of the design, but also to define the supply time of each sector based on its hydraulic characteristics. Graph theory, clustering techniques, multi-attribute decision-making and the concept of network capacity are the basis for achieving this methodology.
Included in
Civil Engineering Commons, Data Storage Systems Commons, Environmental Engineering Commons, Hydraulic Engineering Commons, Other Civil and Environmental Engineering Commons
Sectorization of intermittent water supply networks based on graph theory and clustering techniques
Session C1: VI Data Mining for Environmental Sciences Session
Intermittent water supply is the form of access to water in many countries around the world. It is very common that design, operation, maintenance and, in general, decision-making in these systems are performed using tools originally developed for systems with continuous supply, which are not adequate. However, these tools can be reasonably applied to network sectorization of intermittent supply networks. We propose a sectorization methodology for networks that do not have the possibility of working with continuous supply. In addition, to ensure sufficient pressure, sector design must guarantee equity in the supply. Furthermore, it is not enough to establish sector delimitation as part of the design, but also to define the supply time of each sector based on its hydraulic characteristics. Graph theory, clustering techniques, multi-attribute decision-making and the concept of network capacity are the basis for achieving this methodology.
