| Article ID: | iaor2004628 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 46 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Start Page Number: | 155 |
| End Page Number: | 162 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Journal: | Water Science and Technology |
| Authors: | Brouckaert C.J., Biscos C., Mulholland M., Lann M.V. Le, Bailey R., Roustan M. |
| Keywords: | programming: integer, networks |
This paper presents an approach to an optimal operation of a potable water distribution network. The main control objective defined during the preliminary steps was to maximise the use of low-cost power, maintaining at the same time minimum emergency levels in all reservoirs. The combination of dynamic elements (e.g. reservoirs) and discrete elements (pumps, valves, routing) makes this a challenging predictive control and constrained optimisation problem, which is being solved by MINLP (mixed integer non-linear programming). Initial experimental results show the performance of this algorithm and its ability to control the water distribution process.