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- Title
Pressure Management and Electric Power Production Using Pumps as Turbines.
- Authors
JAFARI, RAHIM; KHANJANI, MOHAMMAD JAVAD; ESMAEILIAN, HAMID REZA
- Abstract
Pressure-reducing valves (PRVs) are widely used in a water distribution systems (WDSs) to reduce pressure. Replacing PRVs with pumps as turbines (PATs) allows for pressure control as well as electricity generation. In the first step of this study, optimal setting and placement of PRVs was determined to reduce leakage by using a genetic algorithm in a WDS in Tabriz province, Iran. In the second step, some of the selected PRVs were replaced with PATs. Thereafter, the amount of power that would be generated by PATs was calculated. Eventually the system was evaluated in order to validate the proposed model. The computational results show loss reduction and production of a remarkable amount of electric power in the studied system.
- Subjects
ELECTRIC power production; ELECTRIC power; PNEUMATIC control valves; ELECTRIC pumps; TURBINES
- Publication
Journal: American Water Works Association, 2015, Vol 107, Issue 7, pE351
- ISSN
0003-150X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5942/jawwa.2015.107.0083