Implementing an Energy Management System for Distribution Pumping

Derceto, Inc. were one of the exhibitors at the AWWA Annual Conference (ACE05) in San Francisco in June. The company released an article titled: “Implementing an Energy Management System for Distribution Pumping“.

Here are a few words taken from the publication just to get you started:

The system generates an optimized pump schedule solution for the next 24 to 48 hours. Telemetry data on treated water reservoirs levels and pump flows is received from the Supervisory Control and Data Accusation System (SCADA) every 10 minutes. Derceto takes account of daily zonal demand variations, available supply capacity, system constraints, and power cost information. Every half hour a schedule for each pump is generated for the next 24 to 48 hours. These schedules are then updated based on real-time demand data and reservoir levels, which may be varying from predicted values. The Derceto EWQMS contains six major components. A water demand forecaster, a pump schedule optimizer, water quality module, energy cost calculator and a state estimator/data cleaner and the SCADA interface.

Read the full article here.