The aspirating smoke detector (ASD) is one of the most critical pieces of equipment for detecting smoke in a protected area when a fire occurs. It has more advantages than a conventional smoke detector because it can be used in extreme conditions, su...
Implementing drip irrigation technology in water-scarce regions is a key development direction for modern agriculture. This paper proposes a multi-constraint optimization model based on a particle swarm optimization-genetic algorithm (PSO-GA) to mini...
To address the complexity and high computational burden in the design of drip irrigation networks, the Jaya algorithm is utilized to study factors affecting project costs, including equipment and pipeline depreciation and the operation and management...
A synchronous optimization method for self-pressure drip irrigation pipe network system is proposed. We have generalized the optimization design problem of the system and have established the mathematical models for the simultaneous optimization desi...
Hardy Cross originally proposed a method for analysis of flow in networks of conduits or conductors in 1936. His method was the first really useful engineering method in the field of pipe network calculation. Only electrical analogs of hydraulic netw...
The water supply networks of many countries are experiencing a drastic increase in the number of pipe failures. To reverse this tendency, it is essential to optimise the replacement plans of pipes. For this reason, companies demand pioneering techniq...
A meter network is a set of meters installed throughout a water distribution system to measure system variables, such as the pipe flow rate and pressure. In the current hyper-connected world, meter networks are being exposed to meter failure conditio...
How to perform accurate calculation of heat balance and quantitative analysis of energy efficiency for building clusters is an urgent problem to be solved to reduce building energy consumption and improve energy utilization efficiency. This article p...
The goal of this case study is to demonstrate the application and utility of a developed System Dynamics (SD) model to assess the sustainability of strategic decisions for managing the wastewater collection (WWC) pipe network system for a medium-size...
This paper proposes a new network topology design method that considers all the road nodes, energy stations and load centers to ensure the distribution of pipes along the road. The traditional graph theory and Prim Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) are use...
Late detection of cracks can lead to serious failures and damages of drilling components, especially drill pipes and drill bits. Currently, the widely used method of repairing rotary drilling systems after a failure is corrective maintenance. Althoug...
Pressure sensor placement is critical to system safety and operation optimization of water supply networks (WSNs). The majority of existing studies focuses on sensitivity or burst identification ability of monitoring systems based on certain specific...
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The frequency of urban storms has increased, influenced by the climate changing and urbanization, and the process of urban rainfall runoff has also changed, leading to severe urban waterlogging problems. Against this background, the risk of urban wat...
This document is intended to be a presentation of the Special Issue “Advanced Hydroinformatic Techniques for the Simulation and Analysis of Water Supply and Distribution Systems”. The final aim of this Special Issue is to propose a suitable framework...
The hydraulic model serves as an effective tool for operational simulation, dispatch decision-making, and engineering planning in water distribution systems (WDSs). The increasing complexity of large-scale networks and the growing number of monitorin...
The corrosion behavior of carbon steel X36 (CSX36) in solutions of soils collected from different areas linked to the main pipe network of a water distribution system in Jeddah City (Obhour Al Shamaliyah, Ob-Sh; Al Shateie, Sh; Al Safa, Sf; Al Samer,...
The paper proposes a new methodology for revamping design and optimization of a process piping system. Starting from ASME B31.3 Process Piping prescriptions for stress analysis, a nonlinear model is built to express the relationship between stress di...
Micro-irrigation pipe network systems are commonly utilized for water transmission and distribution in agricultural irrigation. They effectively transport and distribute water to crops, aiming to achieve water and energy conservation, increased yield...
As the use of fossil fuel has increased, not only in construction, but also in agriculture due to the drastic industrial development in recent times, the problems of heating costs and global warming are getting worse. Therefore, the introduction of m...
Water distribution networks (WDNs) are critical infrastructure yet vulnerable to contamination, thereby threatening public health. Rapid contaminant detection through sensor systems is essential for water safety. This study compares topological and o...
To overcome the challenges brought about by abnormal weather and the growing industrial water consumption in Taiwan, the Taiwanese government is transporting water from the northern to the southern part of the country to help with droughts occurring...
This study introduces an integrated Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology combining the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), Entropy Weight Method (EWM), and Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS) to optim...
The supply and exhaust system of the experimental rack on the Chinese space station is a complex integrated system. In this paper, a multi-stage simulation, testing, and verification method is designed for a multi-team, multi-location, and multi-stag...
Urban flooding disasters are increasingly prevalent because of global climate change and urbanization. University campuses, as independent functional zones, exhibit complex rainfall–runoff dynamics. This study focuses on the China University of...
A thermal management system for lithium-ion batteries is an essential requirement for electric vehicle operation due to the large amount of heat generated by these cylindrical batteries during fast charging/discharging. Previously, researchers have f...
Energy consumption in water supply systems is closely connected with the demand for water, since energy is mostly consumed in the process of water transport and distribution, in addition to the energy that might be needed to pump the water from its s...
This paper presents the development of a novel system dynamics (SD) model for better understanding the interrelation and feedback mechanism between the wastewater collection (WWC) and wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) systems. Causal loop diagrams (C...
To enhance the energy performance of a central air-conditioning system, an effective control method for the chilled water system is always essential. However, it is a real challenge to distribute exact cooling energy to multiple terminal units in dif...
We proposed an economic, cost-constrained optimal design of a water distribution system (WDS) that maximizes seismic reliability while satisfying pressure constraints. The model quantifies the seismic reliability of a WDS through a series of procedur...
The pressurized irrigation network aims to deliver water to consumption nodes at an appropriate pressure and discharge. The traditional pipe network optimization minimizes the annual operating cost or investment per unit area. The present work establ...
Hydraulic transient data assimilation in pipe networks plays a critical role in monitoring the network’s behaviours, thereby ensuring the efficiency and reliability of water supply systems. However, the existing Kalman filter-based methods inte...
Compared with traditional pipe networks, the complexity of air conditioning water systems (ACWSs) and the alternation of cooling and heating are more likely to cause pipe network leakage. Pipe leakage failure seriously affects the reliability of the...
Storm water drainage system in urban areas became a deterministic system, especially in light of the current climate changes. This system eliminates the excess water resulting from heavy rainfall, which leads to disruption of daily life. Irregular ma...
This study is dedicated to the development of an advanced ship piping network programming tool to address the challenges faced by traditional text-based design and computation methods when dealing with complex and large-data-volume piping systems, su...
In this paper, the application of machine learning and deep learning algorithms for fault and failure detection in maritime systems is examined, specifically focusing on the detection of pipe ruptures in a ship’s saltwater firefighting (FiFi) s...
With the increasing urbanization rate, higher demand is placed on drainage systems, necessitating analysis of their risk profiles. While many studies focus on the individual hydraulic modeling of stormwater and wastewater systems when considering ope...
Vulnerability analysis of urban drainage networks plays an important role in urban flood management. This study analyzes and compares the vulnerability of tree and loop systems under various rainfall events to structural failure represented by pipe b...
The process of designing water distribution networks is divided into two main stages: network layout routing and pipe sizing. However, routing and sizing are not separate tasks—the shape of the network affects the diameters of the pipes, and vi...
Based on the sewage pipe network system in the service area of Qianshan-Gongbei Plant in Zhuhai City, the characteristics of water quality and quantity were analyzed, and the common problems were diagnosed. Through the establishment of a hydraulic-wa...
As a part of the critical infrastructure, water supply systems must be characterized by an appropriate level of operational reliability and safety. One of the threats to this is the failure of the water supply network, influenced by many factors, amo...
Soil piping leads to land degradation in almost all morphoclimatic regions. However, the detection of soil pipes is still a methodological challenge. Therefore, this study aims at testing ground penetrating radar (GPR) to identify soil pipes and to p...
An automated algorithm based on the dynamic hydrological and hydraulic simulation modules in Storm Water Management Model (SWMM) was developed to aid the design of storm sewer networks, provided that a layout is given. Numerical performance of the pr...
Identifying decarbonization strategies at the district level is increasingly necessary to align the development of urban projects with European climate neutrality objectives. It is well known that district heating and cooling networks are an attracti...
When fluids flow into the pipes, the materials in them cause deposits to form inside the pipes over time, which is a threat to the efficiency of the equipment and their depreciation. In the present study, a method for detecting the volume percentage...
With the expansion of cities, district heating (DH) networks are playing an increasingly important role. The energy consumption due to the time delay caused by the transport of the medium in the DH network is enormous, especially in large networks. T...
The field of in-pipe robotics covers a vast and varied number of approaches to the inspection of pipelines with robots specialising in pipes ranging anywhere from 10 mm to 1200 mm in diameter. Many of these developed systems focus on overcoming in-pi...
This paper compares approaches for accurate numerical modeling of transients in the pipe element of district heating systems. The distribution grid itself affects the heat flow dynamics of a district heating network, which subsequently governs the he...
Water distribution networks (WDNs) represent a class of critical infrastructure networks. When a disaster occurs, component failures in a WDN may trigger system failures that result in larger-scale reactions. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the e...
The increasing potential of infrastructure disruptions calls for high-quality infrastructure models to be used in resilience analysis and decision making. Unfortunately, many utilities and communities do not have access to accurate and detailed model...
The sustainable management of the water supply system requires methodologies to monitor, repair, or replace the aging infrastructure, but more importantly, it must be able to assess the condition of the networks and predict their behavior over time....
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