Water Simulation Packages (WSP)

From Helix Technologies web site:

delta-Q is a powerful tool for engineers and equipment suppliers to quickly and easily design and optimise pipe networks for compressible and incompressible fluids. You can produce economically and technically sound pipe system designs in a very short time. You can calculate friction losses and pressure drop in pipes and fittings for Liquids, Slurries and Gasses. Model complex process flow pipe networks and solve for unknown flow rates and node pressures at the press of a button. Retrieve data from user accessible databases for Liquids, Slurries, Gasses, Pumps, Pipes and Fittings or add your own data.

Features:

• delta-Q includes a CAD DXF file generator for exporting the network diagram to CAD
• Design and Solve Complex Pipe System Networks.
• Solves for any number of pipes, nodes and pumps. Uses matrix algebra combined with the Newton-Raphson method for quick, accurate convergence.
• Drag and Drop Network components onto the screen for quick and easy network creation.
• Add individual fittings to pipes using the fitting database or enter an estimate of the total K value.
• Calculate Fitting Losses using the standard K value method or the Kf method which compensates for fluid viscosity and turbulence.
• Comprehensive Databases for Pipes, Liquids, Slurries, Gasses and Pumps.
• Setup individual Fluids and properties in each pipe - Model real world process flows with different fluids in the same network.
• Model what if scenarios - close off certain pipes and view the effects on the network.
• Display the Network Calculation Results such as Pipe Flows, Velocity, Head Loss, Node Pressure and many others on the Network Diagram.
• Network Reports Display and Print the Network Pipe and Node Data and Calculation Results in compact Tabular Form.
• Export the Results to Spreadsheets like MS Excel
• Click on a Pipe to View the System Curve with the Network Duty Point shown.
• Perform Complex Orifice Plate Calculations automatically merely by adding an Orifice to a Pipe.
• Include Networks with unknown pressure nodes and unknown flow nodes or any combination of the two.
• Model networks containing any number of pumps, reservoirs and spray nozzles and other components.
• Build a Model to simulate almost any Process Flow condition including pipes, fittings, valves, pumps, orifice plates, vessels, sprinklers, nozzles, columns, flow and pressure control valves.
• Model any number of pipes, junctions, pumps, vessels, sprinklers, nozzles, tanks, intakes, and outlets as you like in one network.
• Add individual fittings to each pipe or enter a global K value or Kf value for a quick estimate of fitting losses.
• You can have different fluids in the same network. For example, you may have a concentrated slurry in one pipe flowing into a junction with a water pipe (or pipes) and dilute slurry flowing through the network from that point onwards.
• Pipe capital vs. operating costs are calculated to assist you to make decisions on the most economical pipe size for an application.
• Use any Engineering units you require - it is easy to add your own units, or select Metric, SI or English units supplied with the program.
• The program is supplied with Sample files and on-line Help to get you started quickly and easily.

For more information see Helix website

Process Energy Services is pleased to introduce PUMP & SYSTEMS “BASIC” AND “PRO”, the new software tools created to assist facility operators and engineers optimize existing and new pump systems to improve efficiency and reduce energy costs.

The PUMP & SYSTEMS software tools are designed to take the mystery out of centrifugal pump systems, and help identify opportunities to improve pump efficiency and reduce costs. This program is ideal for modeling water and wastewater pumps, cooling and chilled water system pumps, and process pump systems.

The benefits of PUMP & SYSTEMS software includes:

• The ability to model an existing pump by inputting pump curve data specifically for the pump being reviewed.
• Allows the user to evaluate the efficiency of multiple pumps operated in parallel
• Provides energy cost comparison for operating a pump at full speed or reduced speed with a VSD
• Evaluates the energy cost impact of the following system changes:
  • Pipe size
  • Pipe length
  • System age
  • Tank levels
  • Fluid temperature
  • Motor efficiency
  • Energy Cost
  • Type of variable speed drive
• Easy to use pull down menus that allow the user to enter information for pipe sizes, valve types, tank elevations (or static head), motor efficiency, cost of electricity and other parameters to evaluate pump system energy costs.
• A visual representation of the pump, piping and tank system, a simulated pump curve, and a detailed efficiency comparison list for operating the pump as a fixed speed or variable speed pump (Basic).
• The ability to model fixed or variable speed multiple pumps operating in parallel to determine system head and flow output as well as the optimum speed and number of pumps to operate the system as efficiently as possible (Pro).

For more information see PUMP & SYSTEMS web page.

Wallingford Software announced a new version release of InfoWorks:

The latest release of Wallingford Software’s InfoWorks, Version 6.5, offers extended features in all three products – 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.

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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MISER

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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HAMMER v7.0

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.

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From Engineered Software web site:

PIPE-FLO Professional simulates the operation of piping systems transporting liquids and industrial gases under a variety of expected operating conditions. PIPE-FLO Professional has no limits as to the number of pipelines it can handle and provides accurate results for series, branching, looped systems (both open and closed), as well as primary / secondary piping systems. If you can draw your piping system, PIPE-FLO Professional will show you how it operates.

Using PIPE-FLO Professional you can:

• Draw a piping system schematic showing all the pumps, components, tanks, control valves and interconnecting pipelines.
• Size the connecting pipelines using electronic pipe, valve, and fluid data tables.
• Select pumps and control valves from manufacturer’s Electronic Catalogs, to optimize pump and system operation.
• Calculate how the system operates including pressures and flow rates, Net Positive Suction Head (NPSHa), and annual pumping costs.
• Provide immediate access to supporting documents needed to design, build, operate and maintain the piping system.
• Share the piping system design with others by way of the PIPE-FLO Viewer.

For more information see PIPE-FLO Professional web page.

From Wallingford Software web site:

InfoWorks WS offers the most effective way to achieve an accurate view of the performance of your network and meet your various objectives. Water quality, the effective management of water supply during drought conditions, the identification of weaknesses in the network infrastructure and many other issues can all be monitored and remedies identified through the development and ongoing maintenance of a high quality all mains model.

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InfoWorks WS includes the following simulation modules:

• Dynamic Water Quality Module: analyses water quality components of a water supply network system
• Autocalibration Module: an invaluable tool for fine tuning model calibration
• Fire Flow Analysis Module
• Sediment Module: integrates hydraulic modeling with sedimentation modeling
• InfoWorks ‘Viewer’: everything appears just as it does in InfoWorks WS. It is fully functional with respect to its ability to view data and results in the various graphical and tabular views

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InfoWorks WS (Water Supply)

From Advantica web site:

“SynerGEE Water is a simulation software package used to model and analyze water distribution systems. It is brought to you by Advantica, the global leader in engineering simulation technology.”

Among the usual features of a water simulation package, SynerGee Water offers a set of addon modules. Here are a few words about each one of them:

Customer Management Module (CMM)
The Customer Management Module (CMM) of SynerGEE Water allows you to create a link between your customer information system (CIS). Once established, customer information can be viewed at individual (or groups) of pipes and nodes within SynerGEE.

Area Isolation Module (AIM)
You tell AIM which point in the system requires isolation and AIM graphically identifies the valves that need to be closed and shows you the total area impacted with loss of service.

OnLine Module (OLM)
The OnLine Module (OLM)for SynerGEE Water allows automatic transfer of operational and reference data from your SCADA system into SynerGEE for use in performing steady-state and time-varying network simulations.

SubsystemManagement Module (SMM)
The SubsystemManagement Module (SMM) of SynerGEE Water offers several methods for simplifying work on a piping system model. You can: extract and merge subsystem data, work in a simplified or skeletal version of the model for studies that don’t require detailed analyses of all model features, reduce the level of graphical and hydraulic detail of the model by removing or equivalencing nodes and pipes that you think are unnecessary for subsequent modeling.

Reliability Analysis Module
The Reliability Analysis module enables you to determine how your system will respond to pipe failure and measure the resulting impact on your system’s water supply.You can run analyses using steady-state peak hour analysis or time-varying analysis to fi nd the impact of failure on every facility within your system or within a selected subset.Using these results, you can determine your ability to deliver the required demand at each node.

For more information see SynerGee Water web page.

From TechnoLogismiki web site:

The official version of the Hydraulic Programs suite for Windows 9x/NT/Me/2000/XP/2003, includes the following modules:

• Gravity Networks: Storm networks, Sewer networks, Water collection inlets
• Networks Under Pressure: Water networks, Pressure networks
• Profiles: Network profiles
• Network Quantities & Budgets: Quantities calculation, Budget and Construction costs
• Dams: Reservoir simulation, Hydropower works
• Pressure Flow: Pump calculation, Water hammer
• Free Surface Flow: Flood routing, Culverts
• Hydrology: Hydrographs synthesis, Flood flows, Water balance model
• River hydraulics: Uniform flow in streams and rivers, Non-uniform flow in streams and rivers, River profiles

The water networks module solves water networks consisted of junctions, pipes, valves, pumps, tanks and reservoirs. The program can be used to derive the steady state solution or an extended variable solution. It is compatible with EPANET and you can import - export files from and to EPANET. A partial list of its features follows:

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Hydraulic Programs suite v4.x