Water network pumps control reducing the energy costs

Abstract

Two algorithms for pumps control reducing the energy cost in the communal water networks are presented in this paper. The energy saving in water and wastewater networks is, beside the reduction of water and wastewater leaks, one of the main operational tasks in the waterworks. As a result an essential cutting of the exploitation costs can be achieved. In the presented algorithms an heuristic method of multi criteria optimization is applied. Both algorithms are parts of the ICT system for complex management of communal waterworks that is under development at the Systems Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences. All calculations done during testing these algorithms were made with the real data from Polish waterworks.