H2OMAP Water Scheduler

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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