Managing Water Quality in Distribution Systems

Wednesday, May 24, 2023

9:45 AM – 11:45 AM PDT

Room: La Sirena III

Moderator(s)

Terranna Haxton, PhD (she/her/hers)

Environmental Engineer
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Presentations:

9:45 AM – 10:00 AM PDT

Laceration of Pipeline Inner Walls Using Unsteady Skin Friction
Author (not presenting): Mohamad J. Zeidan – Technion
Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT

Optimal Booster Chlorination Scheduling in WDS under uncertainty: A Robust counterpart approach
Author (not presenting): Sriman Pankaj Boindala, ME – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author (not attending): G Jaykrishnan – Technion
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM PDT

Optimizing source treatment levels in water distribution systems considering extended period simulation under mixing uncertainty at cross junctions
Author (not presenting): Sriman Pankaj Boindala, ME – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM PDT

Reconstruction of missing information in water distribution networks based on graph theory
Author: Mohsen Hajibabaei – University of Innsbruck
Co-Author: Sina Hesarkazzazi, MSc – University of Innsbruck
Co-Author: Aun Dastgir – University of Innsbruck
Co-Author: Amin Minaei (he/him/his) – University of Innsbruck and Austrian Academy of Sciences
Co-Author: Robert Sitzenfrei – University of Innsbruck
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM PDT

Coupling machine learning and agent-based modeling to characterize contamination sources in water distribution systems for changing demand regimes
Author: Emily Z. Berglund, Ph.D. – North Carolina State University
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Leonid Kadinski, MSC – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author (not attending): Brent Vizanko – North Carolina State University
11:00 AM – 11:15 AM PDT

Conjunctive Optimal Operation of Power and Water Networks
Author: Tomer Shmaya (he/him/his) – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Co-Author: Mashor Housh. Housh – University of Haifa
Co-Author: Filippo Pecci
Co-Author: Kyri Baker
Co-Author: Joseph R. Kasprzyk, PhD – University of Colorado Boulder
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
11:15 AM – 11:30 AM PDT

Optimal Operation of Water Distribution Systems Under Uncertainty
Author: Gal Perelman – Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
11:30 AM – 11:45 AM PDT

An hybrid approach for considering topography in graph-based optimization of water distribution networks
Author: Robert Sitzenfrei – University of Innsbruck
Co-Author (not attending): Mengning Qiu, PhD – Israel Institute of Technology–Technion
Co-Author: Avi Ostfeld, PhD, D.WRE, F.EWRI, F.ASCE – Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Co-Author: Dragan Savic – KWR Water Research Institute
Co-Author: Zoran Kapelan – Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology