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- Title
Strategic Placement of In-line Turbines for Optimum Power Generation and Leakage Reduction in Water Supply Networks.
- Authors
Jain, Priyanshu; Khare, Ruchi
- Abstract
Conduit hydropower systems improve the efficiency of water supply networks (WSNs) by utilizing excess network pressure for providing renewable energy while significantly reducing leakage. A major problem in using conduit hydropower is finding the optimum location for installing power generation devices like in-line turbines or pumps operating as turbines (PATs). This paper suggests an optimization model to find the optimum location for placing in-line turbines in WSNs using a non-parametric Rao algorithm for optimal daily power generation. The methodology is tested on a hypothetical 5-Node network and later applied to a benchmark 25-Node network. Installing turbines at optimum locations reduced network leakage by 76332.00 and 380473.87 L, representing approximately 2.57% & 2.94% of the total water demand of 5-Node and 25-Node networks, respectively, and generated 184.12 & 547.48 kWh/day of hydropower.
- Subjects
WATER supply; WATER leakage; TURBINES; PUMP turbines; TURBINE pumps; WIND power
- Publication
Water Resources Management, 2024, Vol 38, Issue 10, p3623
- ISSN
0920-4741
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11269-024-03831-x