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Water Distribution System Analysis (Planning & Management)

Managing Water Quality in Distribution Systems

Conjunctive Optimal Operation of Power and Water Networks

Wednesday, May 24, 2023
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT
Room: La Sirena III
Power and water networks are massive critical infrastructures that are strongly coupled through the power transmitted from the power network to the water network, yet they are commonly operated independently. The resemblance between the two systems is high: a power network is comprised of a system of power stations, power transmission, and power distribution to individual customers, while likely a water network consists of water sources, regional pipelines, and a distribution system for supplying its end users. The physics of both systems is governed by Kirchhoff's laws one and two of continuity of flow/current at nodes and energy pressure/voltage along paths. The complexity of managing both systems independently differs according to the adopted assumptions and can be as easy as solving a linear programming (LP) problem or can end up as a challenging big mixed integer nonlinear problem (MINLP). The objective of this study is to formulate and solve a conjunctive water-power flow (OWPF) problem for mutually optimizing both systems. The formulation and solution scheme will be demonstrated on a small yet general layout of a coupled power-water network.