Schematic and structural optimization of group water supply systems

Abstract

Group water supply systems (GWSS) are designed for centralized water supply of settlements located in waterless areas and remote from drinking water sources. GWSS are an object of increased attention, have a great social and environmental significance, require significant capital investments and financial resources for operation, ensuring the required reliability and manageability. Therefore, the issues of optimization of design solutions for the structure and parameters of structures are relevant and require improvement and development of methodological and software solutions to these problems. The paper proposes a method of redundant design schemes and a method of schematic and structural optimization based on a sequential and iterative solution of two problems: for a fixed value of flows in the graph of the redundant scheme, network parameters are optimized (pipeline diameters, heads, and the composition of pumping stations); with fixed network parameters, the problem of the distribution of water flows is solved in the GWSS.