Optimal Time Step Length to Minimize Uncertainty of Zonal Water Balance Calculation in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

8 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Abstract

Water balance calculation is a well-known and adapted method to analyze district-metered areas (DMAs) of drinking water distribution system. Other application of water balance results can be training dataset for consumption forecast, monitoring and managing water loss. The vast amount of application makes it a very powerful tool, which is in contrary sensitive to the accuracy of the calculation. The uncertainty of flow metering decreases as the length of the time step decreases, however, the uncertainty of stored volume measurement in tanks increases. Investigation of the limitations of water balance calculation in regard to uncertainty is necessary to develop an analytical solution for optimal calculation time step.

Keyphrases: minimum night flow, scada, time step length, uncertainty, water balance

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 266-273.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/wbDq
	https://doi.org/10.29007/5r9x

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Optimal_Time_Step_Length,
  author    = {Attila Bibok and Roland Fülöp},
  title     = {Optimal Time Step Length to Minimize Uncertainty of Zonal Water Balance Calculation in Drinking Water Distribution Systems},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/wbDq},
  doi       = {10.29007/5r9x},
  pages     = {266-273},
  year      = {2018}}

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