Water Pipelines Network Modelling Software

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I am working on a water supply rehabilitation and leakage reduction project and water supply network designs and NRW maintenance.

Which is the best software to learn network modeling of water pipelines? 

Which software can I use to make water pipeline models? Are there different software programmes for water distribution and leakage detection?

Which software do you recommend?

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  4. Dear Syed Shoaib Mohideen，

    For network modeling software, you have got enough advices from professionals.

    In theory, some software will present possible leakage. In order to detect leakage, you need to isolate  'Zoning' in whole network.

    BR,

    Wu Hao

     

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  6. Syed Shoaib Mohideen

    Great that you have requested some help based on experiences of colleagues in the water industry and there are quite a few responses. I would like to use this forum to state that you have really brought a number of issues and aspects to the forefront with respect to water management and wanted to respond to you as well.

    In essence what you have identified are a number of business processes that you wish to address within your organization and rest assured there is no single software package that can do everything. You have mentioned 4 items that need to be addressed and as such wanted to address them. Namely:

    - water ​supply ​rehabilitation

    - leakage ​reduction ​project

    - ​water supply ​network designs

    - NRW ​maintenance

    Topic 1 & 3 - Water Supply Rehabilitation and Network (re)design.

    What I will assume here is that you mean the rehabilitation of water distribution networks. First and foremost, consideration must be given Data Registration, Data Quality, Data Quantity, Data Integrity and Data Management on the assets. Asset data is the basis to be able to use any sort of formula to determine how you achieve a rehabilitation strategy. Network (re)design should not be based solely on hydraulic analysis. Sure you get a working network, but have you considered optimizing that (re)design based on a number of configurable parameters that can provide various results but reduce your asset purchasing by millions of dollars, minimize the risk of your chosen solution and maximize the longevity of your assets? 

    Topic 2 & 4 - Leakage Reduction Project and NRW Maintenance

    Many water utilities have Non Revenue Water levels approaching 50%. A leakage reduction project can entail so many options, but what is going to give you the best result in the quickest order of time. Non Revenue Water can be addressed by a number of business processes within your organization. For example, is there consideration for example about DMA’s, Outage Management System, Sensor data, Leak Detection Logger integration, Risk Analysis, SCADA integration, Call Before You Dig and Soil Types vs Water Pipe material? and how much money will you save on electricity (depending on whether you have gravity working for you or not) to pump that water? that extra water that you are losing? My experience is that there are a number of approaches used to reduce Non Revenue Water but the bottom line is that without a structured approach to a single source of truth for asset data, it tends to be a costly adventure in trying to reduce NRW.

    As Product Manager of Water Office, our team is constantly confronted with providing solutions in this arena. Should you wish to contact me, I can be reached at john.leeuwenburg@wateroffice.com

  9. Syed Shoaib Mohideen  There is no doubt that for such purpose only Bentley WaterGEMS will be the best for you. It is also awarded by International Water Association for Leakage Detection and Network Calibration in 2015.

  10. Hi Syed,

    hope you are doing good !!

    there is plenty much water network modelling softwares are in market but usually in Indian continent water companies usually work with Bentley's water gems & EPANET and both of these are quite user friendly to use.

    you can go with these.

    good luck!

    Thanks,

    Ashutosh

  11. EPANET....HYDROFLOW...WATERNET AUTOCAD

  12. In Kisumu we use Epanet 2.0

  16. If you want freeware, go to www.sigmapipe.com.  You can download and use the software free, and there's a lot of tutorial/teaching material to help you get started.

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  18. EPANET is a very nice software to start, but you can try WaterNetGen.  It is an EPANET based software with some interesting features, like Pressure-Driven-Analysis (to model leakage as I think you want to), pipe design (including new netowrks, existing networks or expansions), and many other. It is free to use and you can download it from: http://www.dec.uc.pt/~WaterNetGen/waternetgen.php?DownLoadData=Nothing

  20. Epanet

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    1. Epanet is the perfect.

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  21. I agree with Igor. Start with EPANET. Some consultants offer programmes with more bells and whistles and capability to transfer data between your mains records systems. A good basic grounding with awareness of what the programme is telling you and your ability to assess whether it is believable is essential. Many people can fall into the trap of believing everything the model does - it is only a tool and an extension of your intellectual capability so see it as such. Hope this helps and good luck - it's a very rewarding journey to become a competent modeller. 

  22. Dear Syed. EPANET is free modeling software you can use for learning and for projects. Later on you can switch to more advanced like WaterCAD, MIKE, etc. Good luck.

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