by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Announcements, Commercial software, General, Water simulation Packages — No Comments ↓

Wallingford Software announced a new version release of InfoWorks:

The latest release of Wallingford Softwareג€™s InfoWorks, Version 6.5, offers extended features in all three products ג€“ water supply, collection systems, and river systems.

InfoWorks WS boasts extensive new function in its water quality capabilities. The path and concentration of externally introduced substances can be traced from reservoir through the entire distribution network. This is applicable to both standard substances such as chlorine, and any malign introductions that are the subject of much security analysis at present.

Read the full press release.

by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Announcements, Commercial software — 3 Comments ↓

From MWH Soft web site:

Fast, comprehensive, and reliable, H2OMAP Protector is specifically designed to give water utilities strategic advantages in a full spectrum of critical areas, including:

  • Reducing infrastructure vulnerability against terrorist attacks, unforeseen operational disruptions and contamination threats
  • Planning infrastructure improvements to protect public health and insure a safe, reliable potable water supply
  • Preparing for and determining effective crisis response strategies
  • Rapidly locating and isolating all areas impacted by contamination, disaster or attack
  • Identifying population at risk
  • Generating customer notification data
  • Tracking contaminants to originating sources
  • Assessing effect of water treatment on contaminant
  • Calculating required purging water volume
  • Developing efficient flushing strategies
  • Evaluating impact of actions on fire-fighting capabilities
  • Determining all critical facilities that will result in the distribution system hydraulic failure
  • Modeling for regulatory compliance
  • Updating emergency response plans

See the full press release.

by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Announcements — 14 Comments ↓

The EPANET User-List archive will be available in a day or two on this web site.

Update: the archive is now available at http://www.water-simulation.com/wsp/bb

See Bill James announcement:

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by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Commercial software, Water simulation Packages — No Comments ↓

From TYNEMARCH web site:

MISER is a highly configurable and flexible suite of decision-support tools for optimal water management, asset and resource planning. MISER is in regular use by water professionals to solve a wide variety of operational and investment planning problems:

  • Monthly production planning
  • Water resources planning
  • Pump scheduling
  • Investment planning
  • Outage analysis

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by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Announcements, Commercial software, General — 3 Comments ↓

MWH Soft announced H2ONET Designer:

H2ONET Designer is the state-of-the-art in water distribution system optimization. Software so rich and powerful it will help you identify the best combination of network improvements that meet target system hydraulic design/performance criteria at minimum cost. You can now conceive and evaluate effective and economical design, rehabilitation, and enhancement alternatives for upgrading and modifying your existing water distribution piping systems for improved performance. An invaluable and complete master planning and decision support tool, H2ONET Designer lets you quickly determine cost-effective rehabilitation, replacement, strengthening, and expansion options to reliably supply projected demands at adequate levels of service, considering any modeling condition time frame (e.g. maximum day), multiple design scenarios (e.g., find the single optimum solution that provides the standard of service under peak day for normal operation + average day under a failure scenario), multiple fire flow scenarios, and complete extended period simulation (EPS) designs (e.g. 24-hour operational design). You now have the tool to help you produce the best possible design and improvement alternatives with a minimum effort and at significant cost-savings. Such capabilities will greatly assist you in planning and designing a sound system and in optimizing your Capital Improvement Program. All in an extremely easy-to-use and fully interactive graphical environment.

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by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Commercial software, Water simulation Packages — 8 Comments ↓

From Haestad Methods web site:

HAMMER from Haestad Methods demystifies the complex science of water hammer and transient analysis and puts the power to perform this critical work in your hands. With HAMMER, you can build your network from scratch using simple drag-and-drop layout tools. You can also interface seamlessly with EPANet, WaterCAD, WaterGEMS, and other hydraulic models to streamline the model-building process.

Model Any Transient Event
HAMMER allows you to quickly set up and model any transient initiator. Simulate pump trips or emergency shutdowns, pump restarts, sudden valve operations, rapid operation of wicket gates, turbine load shedding, rapid changes in demand, pipe bursts, and cyclic/periodic changes in head or flow.

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by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Commercial software, Storm & Sewer software — 3 Comments ↓

From Haestad Methods web site:

SewerGEMS is the first and only fully-dynamic, multi-platform (GIS, CAD, and Stand-Alone) sanitary and combined sewer modeling solution. With SewerGEMS, you will analyze all sanitary and combined sewer system elements in one package and have the option of performing the analyses with the SWMM algorithm or our own implicit solution of the full Saint Venant equations.

Simply put, SewerGEMS offers the most comprehensive solution available for optimizing Best Management Practice (BMP) designs and meeting sanitary sewer overflow (SSO) and combined sewer overflow (CSO) regulations.


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With SewerGEMS, you can:

  • Develop system master plans
  • Assess the impact of inflow and infiltration on SSOs
  • Develop SSO and CSO remediation programs
  • Perform system evaluations associated with US EPA CMOM and NPDES
  • Optimize lift station and system storage capacities
  • Determine developer connection fees
  • Implement real-time control strategies
  • Model relief sewers, overflow diversions, and inverted siphons
  • Accurately simulate operations with variable-speed pumping and logical controls
  • Simulate out-of-service or proposed sewers within the same model

For more information see SewerGEMS web page.

by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Books — 2 Comments ↓

This book announcement was received from Kevin Lansey:

Comprehensive Water Distribution Systems Analysis Handbook for Engineers and Planners
By Paul Boulos, Kevin Lansey and Bryan Karney

This comprehensive 584-page instructional textbook covers everything students, professional engineers, managers, modelers, health department officials, government agencies, consultants, researchers and GIS professionals need to know about how to reliably construct, load, and calibrate systems and use rigorous network models to optimize system planning, design, and complex operational activities. Topics range from in-depth coverage of basic network flow theory and dynamic water quality assessment to sophisticated transient flow and pressure calculations.

Available through the AWWA or from the MWHSoft Bookstore.

by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Announcements, Events & news, Papers and Research — No Comments ↓

Here is a message from Dr. Avi Ostfeld:

Dear Colleagues,

On May 26, 2005 I have issued a call to this list on a “Battle of the Sensors” exercise as part of the planned Special Issue of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management on Drinking Water Distribution Systems Security. Since than I have worked closely with Prof. Jim Uber from the University of Cincinnati to formulate the “Battle” rules, network examples, etc. and came to two main conclusions: (1) the “Battle” is an extremely interesting and challenging issue, and (2) it would be much better to have a session (or more) on that topic, prior to moving to a journal manuscript. We (myself and Jim) are inviting you all (see attached initial announcement) to take part at this challenge during the 8th Water Distribution Systems Analysis SYMPOSIUM in Cincinnati, August 27-30, 2006. If you have any further questions or concerns don’t hesitate to contact me or Jim.

Thanks,

Avi

Read the announcement (in PDF format).

by Elad SalomonsPosted on Posted in Commercial software, Water simulation Packages — No Comments ↓

From MWH Soft web site:

H2OMAP Water Scheduler is designed to assist water distribution system operators and training new operators in selecting cost-effective pumping and valve policies to reduce operational costs, provide more reliable and safer operations, and consistently deliver high quality water. Using the power of genetic algorithms (enhanced with advanced Elitist and Global Search Control strategies), H2OMAP Water Scheduler quickly identifies the optimal operational policy that will best meet your target system hydraulic and water quality performance criteria at maximum cost savings. The operating policy (or schedule) for a pump, valve and pipe (e.g., interzone water transfer, water purchase from an outside agency) represents a set of time-dependent control rules that indicate when a particular pump, valve and pipe or group of pumps, valves and pipes should be turned on or off over a specified period of time (usually 24 hours). The system operational criteria prescribe lower and upper limits on system pressures, tank and water quality (water age) levels, maximum pipe velocities, maximum pump (and valve) flows or volumes, alternative supply sources, and other system constraints aimed at ensuring safe, reliable operations. Both energy consumption ($/kW.h) and demand charges ($/max kW) are considered.

H2OMAP Water Scheduler even lets you improve operational performance further with strategies like matching your desired tank trajectory curves (filling and draining cycles), evaluating various rate schedules, and optimizing water quality conditions and storage/pumping tradeoffs.

H2OMAP Water Scheduler lets you evaluate the operational efficiency of your drinking water distribution system with unprecedented precision – and discover new ways of significantly reducing operational costs and assuring more reliable system performance with the highest quality water.

See the full press release.