DISTRIBUTION NETWORK CONTROL FOR WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS

ABSTRACT The objectives of distribution network control in a water supply system are provision of adequate services at each consumption point and reduction of water leakage by regulating pressure/flow in the network. But, because of the large scale and nonlinearity of the networks, regulation cannot be realized without advanced control technology. This paper presents a modeling technique and a control scheme using computer control particularly suited to large scale networks. This scheme has already been implemented using a minicomputer and is presently in operation in Takamatsu City, population 300,000, in Japan.